A Female Will
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? |