There was a woman, and she was wise; woefully wise was she;She was old, so old, yet her years all told were but a score and three;And she knew by heart, from finish to start, the Book of Iniquity.There is no hope for such as I on earth, nor yet in Heaven;Unloved I live, unloved I die, unpitied, unforgiven;A loathed jade, I ply my trade, unhallowed and unshriven.I paint my cheeks, for they are white, and cheeks of chalk men hate;Mine eyes with wine I make them shine, that man may seek and sate;With overhead a lamp of red I sit me down and waitUntil they come, the nightly scum, with drunken eyes aflame;Your sweethearts, sons, ye scornful ones -- 'tis I who know their shame.The gods, ye see, are brutes to me -- and so I play my game.For life is not the thing we thought, and not the thing we plan;And Woman in a bitter world must do the best she can --Must yield the stroke, and bear the yoke, and serve the will of man;Must serve his need and ever feed the flame of his desire,Though be she loved for love alone, or be she loved for hire;For every man since life began is tainted with the mire.And though you know he love you so and set you on love's throne;Yet let your eyes but mock his sighs, and let your heart be stone,Lest you be left (as I was left) attainted and alone.From love's close kiss to hell's abyss is one sheer flight, I trow,And wedding ring and bridal bell are will-o'-wisps of woe,And 'tis not wise to love too well, and this all women know.Wherefore, the wolf-pack having gorged upon the lamb, their prey,With siren smile and serpent guile I make the wolf-pack pay --With velvet paws and flensing claws, a tigress roused to slay.One who in youth sought truest truth and found a devil's lies;A symbol of the sin of man, a human sacrifice.Yet shall I blame on man the shame? Could it be otherwise?Was I not born to walk in scorn where others walk in pride?The Maker marred, and, evil-starred, I drift upon His tide;And He alone shall judge His own, so I His judgment bide.Fate has written a tragedy; its name is The Human Heart.The Theatre is the House of Life, Woman the mummer's part;The Devil enters the prompter's box and the play is ready to start
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