A Female Will

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     What may Man be? who can tell? But what may Woman be,
     To have power over Man from Cradle to corruptible Grave?
     There is a Throne in every Man: it is the Throne of God.
     This, Woman has claim'd as her own; and Man is no more:
     Albion is the Tabernacle of Vala and her Temple,
     And not the Tabernacle and Temple of the Most High.
     O Albion! why wilt thou create a Female Will,
     To hide the most evident God in a hidden covert, even
     In the shadows of a Woman and a secluded Holy Place,
     That we may pry after him as after a stolen treasure,
     Hidden among the Dead and murèd up from the paths of Life?