<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra Roman No 2"; font-size: 2.5rem; font-style: italic; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">The Women's Litany</span></div><div><br></div><div>by Margaret Widdemer</div><div><br></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Let us in through the guarded gate,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Let us in for our pain’s sake!</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Lips set smiling and face made fair</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Still for you through the pain we bare,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We have hid till our hearts were sore</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Blacker things than you ever bore:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Let us in through the guarded gate,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Let us in for our pain’s sake! </em><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Let us in through the guarded gate,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Let us in for our strength’s sake!</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Light held high in a strife ne’er through</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We have fought for our sons and you,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We have conquered a million years’</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Pain and evil and doubt and tears—</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Let us in through the guarded gate,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Let us in for our strength’s sake! </em><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Let us in through the guarded gate,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Let us in for your own sake!</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We have held you within our hand,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Marred or made as we broke or planned,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We have given you life or killed</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">King or brute as we taught or willed—</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Let us in through the guarded gate,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Let us in for your own sake! </em><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Let us in through the guarded gate,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Let us in for the world’s sake!</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We are blind who must guide your eyes,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">We are weak who must help you rise,</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">All untaught who must teach and mold</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Souls of men till the world is old—</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"><em style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(52, 52, 52); color: rgb(52, 52, 52); font-family: "Poets Electra", Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 17.600000381469727px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(30, 30, 30, 0); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">Let us in through the guarded gate,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Let us in for the world’s sake!</em><br><br>—————————————————<br><br><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">http://www.MoscowCares.net</span></div><div><br></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><br></div><div>“A stranger is just a friend you haven’t met.”</div><div>- Roy E. Stolworthy</div><div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>