Dorothy Parker - Sonnet For The End Of A Sequence lyrics

So take my vows and scatter them to sea Who swears the sweetest is no more than human And say no kinder words than these of me "Ever she longed for peace, but was a woman! And thus they are, whose silly female dust Needs little enough to clutter it and bind it Who meet a slanted gaze, and ever must Go build themselves a soul to dwell behind it." For now I am my own again, my friend! This scar but points the whiteness of my breast This frenzy, like its betters, spins an end And now I am my own. And that is best Therefore, I am immeasurably grateful To you, for proving shallow, false, and hateful