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Queen Victoria as I Knew Her

Note 13 — Front matter

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The allusion is to the lines in the fine passage in the seventh section of that poem, beginning, "Blame not thyself too much":—

"Let woman make herself her own To give or keep, to live and learn, and be All that not harms distinctive womanhood. For woman is not undevelopt man, But diverse; could we make her as the man, Sweet love were slain; his dearest bond is this, Not like to like, but like in difference."

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