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FROM the Queen Bee mother, the mother Beast, and the mother Fowl in / the fen, / A call went up to the human world, to Woman, the mother of men. / The call said, ‘Come: for we, the dumb, are given speech for a day, / And the things we have thought for a thousand years we are going at / last to say.'
Much they marvelled, these women of earth, at the strange and curious / call, / And some of them laughed, and some of them sneered, but they answered / it one and all, / For they wanted to hear what never before was heard since the world / began- / The spoken word of Beast and Bird, and the message it held for Man.