Verse 1
Women excus’d from public care,
Design’d for nobler service seem;
God gives them time, in frequent prayer,
His handmaids, to attend on Him;
And more to piety inclin’d
We always see the gentler kind.
Verse 2
Women we own the foremost still,
Where stated prayer is made, t’ appear,
They first the place of worship fill,
They first the joyful tidings hear,
The welcom messengers receive,
And patterns to the faithful live.