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When the woman suffrage argument first stood upon its legs, / They answered it with cabbages, they answered it with eggs, / They answered it with ridicule, they answered it with scorn, / They thought it a monstrosity that should not have been born.
When the woman suffrage argument grew vigorous and wise, / And was not to be silenced by these apposite replies, / They turned their opposition into reasoning severe / Upon the limitations of our God-appointed sphere.