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Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry. 1904.

VIII. Wedded Love

Woman’s Will

John Godfrey Saxe (1816–1887)

An Epigram

MEN, dying, make their wills, but wives

Escape a work so sad;

Why should they make what all their lives

The gentle dames have had?