To Woman" -- 1857 Manuscript Poem on Embossed Card

N.pl, 1857. Good to very good. Toned with some dust soiling, a couple cracks in embossed card.. A manuscript poem titled "To Woman" penned on an attractive embossed and die-cut card, sometime mounted on modern black card (5.5" by 7"). Most likely originally intended for a friendship or scrap album. Dated 1857 at foot with initials below ("F.G."?). The poem, originally published in the 1830s, begins: "Of Woman! not for thee the living tomb, The Harem's splendor, or the Convent's gloom, Not thine to bend to fear's unhallowed nod, and scorn the world to please creation's God..." The poem was often quoted in newspapers and attributed to the American poet James Gates Percival with the title "Vision of Fair Spirit