An Agreement

Mr. William Clissold regards Birth-Control as the test of
liberality: those against it are reactionary: those in favour
are for the progressive revolution.

Where you have laid it, let the sword divide:
And your unmotherly Medea be

Here sundered from our human trinity,

The Mother and the Virgin and the Bride.

Why should we falter? Ours shall be the mirth

And yours the amaze when you have thinned away
Your starving serfs to fit their starveling pay

And seen the meek inheriting the earth.

That Christ from this creative purity

Came forth your sterile appetites to scorn.
Lo: in her house Life without Lust was born,
So in your house Lust without Life shall die.