What Governments Say To Women

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Title:     What Governments Say To Women
Author: Alice Duer Miller [More Titles by Miller]

(The law compels a married woman to take the nationality of her husband.)

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_In Time of War_

Help us. Your country needs you;
Show that you love her,
Give her your men to fight,
Ay, even to fall;
The fair, free land of your birth,
Set nothing above her,
Not husband nor son,
She must come first of all.

II

_In Time of Peace_

What's this? You've wed an alien,
Yet you ask for legislation
To guard your nationality?
We're shocked at your demand.
A woman when she marries
Takes her husband's name and nation:
She should love her husband only.
What's a woman's native land?

[The end]
Alice Duer Miller's poem: What Governments Say To Women

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