FUTURE OF WOMEN IN SCIENCE 417 



He gain in sweetness and in moral height, 

 Nor lose the wrestling thews that throw the world; 

 She mental breadth, nor fail in childward care, 

 Nor lose the childlike in the larger mind; 

 Till at the last she set herself to man, 

 Like perfect music unto noble words; 

 And as these twain, upon the skirts of Time, 

 Sit side by side, full-summ'd in all their powers, 

 Dispensing harvest, sowing the To-be, 

 Self-reverent each, and reverencing each, 

 Distinct in individualities, 

 But like each other ev'n as those who love, 

 Then comes the statelier Eden back to men; 

 Then reign the world's great bridals chaste and calm; 

 Then springs the crowning race of human-kind. 

 May these things be!" 



