ENOUGH SAID
by Clark McAdams

St. Louis Dispatch [1912]

“Votes for women!”
was the cry
Reaching upward
to the sky
Crashing glass
and flashing eye
“Votes for women”
was the cry.

“Boats for women!”
was the cry
When the brave
Were come to die.
When the end was drawing nigh –
“Boats for women”
was the cry.

Life has many
Little jests
Insignificant
as tests.
Doubt and bitterness assail
But “Boats for women”
tells the tale.

The Titanic Reader
Chapter 7, page 240

[Thank you to Steven Tirone for digging up this poem.]

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