Now I have thought deeply otherwise.

If a woman ignores these wrongs, then may women as a sex continue to suffer them; there is no help for any of us--let us be dumb and die.

I have spoken therefore, and in speaking have used plain words--words which look like blots, and which you yourself would put away--words which, if blurred or softened, would imperil perhaps the force and righteousness of the moral influence.

Still, I certainly will, when the time comes, go over the poem carefully, and see where an offence can be got rid of without loss otherwise.

The second edition was issued so early that Robert would not let me alter even a comma, would not let me look between the pages in order to the least alteration.