“A manly form at her side she saw,
And joy was duty and love was law.
Then she took up her burden of life again,
Saying only, "It might have been."”

Maud Muller (1856)

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American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slave… 1807–1892

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“A manly form at her side she saw,And joy was duty and love was law.Then she took up her burden of life again,Saying only, "It might have been."”

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“A manly form at her side she saw,
And joy was duty and love was law.
Then she took up her burden of life again,
Saying only, "It might have been."”