WHAT thing shall be held up to woman's beauty?
Where are the bounds of it? Yea, what is all
The world, but an awning scaffolded amid
The waste perilous Eternity, to lodge
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woman- there is beauty, there is infatuation, there is magic, there is magnet all through mystery for the man
We had a Bible Study about the Book of Esther and I really admired Vashti who was the wife of King Ahasuerus. It was tradition that when the king held a banquet for the nobles that the queen held a separate banquet for the women. This particular time the King got drunk and wanted to show off the beauty of his queen Vashti so he ordered his seven chamberlains to summon Vashti to come before him and his guests wearing her royal crown. This was not culturally cool because the Queen was not to be displayed before a bunch of drunks. Vashti refused to come, and the king got angry at being told no in front of his drunken revelers His sneaky snake adviser tells him that Vashti needs to be put aside and replaced by another queen because she has encouraged all the wives in Persia to disobey their husbands. Anarchy will result, wives will run amuck in the streets. What modern woman would not like Vashti?
This is such a wonderfully written poem. I really loved reading it.
Nicely brought forth with deep insight