Partners

(“Our laws have not yet reached the point of holding that property which is the result of the husband’s earnings and the wife’s savings becomes their joint property….In this most important of all partnerships there is no partnership property.”—Recent decision of the New York Supreme Court.)

Lady, share the praise I obtain
            Now and again;
Though I’m shy, it doesn’t matter,
I will tell you how they flatter:
Every compliment I’ll share
            Fair and square.

Lady, I my toil will divide
            At your side;
I outside the home, you within;
You shall wash and cook and spin,
I’ll provide the flax and food,
            If you’re good.

Partners, lady, we shall be,
            You and me,
Partners in the highest sense
Looking for no recompense,
For, the savings that we make,
            I shall take.