Songs & Ballads Of the American Revolution

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1780.
These lines were addressed to the females of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, " who illustrated the nobility of their sentiment and virtue of their patriotism, by generous subscriptions to the suffering soldiers of the American armv." The author is unknown.
OUR WOMEN.
All hail! superior sex, exalted fair, Mirrors of virtue, Heaven's peculiar care; Form'd to enspirit and enoble man The immortal finish of Creation's plan !
Accept the tribute of our warmest praise The soldier's blessing and the patriot's bays ! For fame's first plaudit we no.more contest Constrain'd to own it decks the female breast.