that awesome multitude with gladness and delight?!

Is it fate and its decree that have descended upon her? Then why do we not summon it to ourselves with talismans and spells, with prayers and amulets fitted to our heedless Eastern souls — we whom disasters and calamities grind to nothing!

Oh, the glory of the women of London! Oh, the brisk working women — the ticket takers, the hotel workers, the shop girls — their faces alight

with the pride of unwearied endeavor, with the freshness of that urgent duty which spreads abroad a woman's moral beauty and prepares the means of her nation's rise!

Would that the past mistresses of indolent ease, those women blind to work in my beloved country, might see them..!

London — Hibah al-Wadi