Inauguration Day

The old forget: yet all shall be forgot,
But she’ll remember with advantages
What feats she did that day: then shall our names.
Familiar in her
mouth as household words
Rodham the queen, Steinem and Ferrera,
Jefferson and Summers, Aduba and Shook,
Be in their flowing cups freshly remember’d.
This story shall the good woman teach her daughter;
And January twentieth shall ne’er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember’d;
We few, we happy few, we band of sisters;
For she to-day that sheds her blood with me
Shall be my sister; be she ne’er so vile,
This day shall gentle her condition:
And gentlewomen in America now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their womanhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Inauguration Day.