Many Men to Any Woman

If you have beauty, charm, refinement, tact,

If you can prove that should I set you free,

You would not contemplate the smallest act

That might annoy or interfere with me.

If you can show that women will abide

By the best standards of their womanhood —

( And I must be the person to decide

What in a woman is the highest good );

If you display efficiency supreme

In philanthropic work devoid of pay;

If you can show a clearly thought-out scheme

For bringing the millennium in a day:

Why, then, dear lady, at some time remote,

I might consider giving you the vote.