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Title: The courtship of Miles Standish
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 Christy, Howard Chandler, 1873-1952, ill
Subjects: Standish, Myles, 1584?-1656
Publisher: Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merrill
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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culling his phrases: Tis not good for a man to be alone, say the Scriptures.This I have said before, and again and again I repeat it;Every hour in the day, I think it, and feel it, and say it.Since Rose Standish died, my life has been weary and dreary;Sick at heart have I been, beyond the healing of friendship.Oft in my lonely hours have I thought of the maiden Priscilla.She is alone in the world; her father and mother and brotherDied in the winter together; I saw her going and coming,Now to the grave of the dead, and now to the bed of the dying,Patient, courageous, and strong, and said to myself, that if everThere were angels on earth, as there are angels in heaven,Two have I seen and known; and the angel whose name is PriscillaHolds in my desolate life the place which the other abandoned.Long have I cherished the thought, but never have dared to reveal it,Being a coward in this, though valiant enough for the most part.Go to the damsel Priscilla, the loveliest maiden of Plymouth, 34
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LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP Say that a blunt old Captain, a man not of words but of actions, Offers his hand and his heart, the hand and heart of a soldier. Not in these words, )tou know, but this in short is my meaning; I am a maker of Avar, and not a maker of phrases. You, who are bred as a scholar, can say it in elegant language, Such as you read in your books of the pleadings and wooings of lovers, Such as you think best adapted to win the heart of a maiden. When he had spoken, John Alden, the fair-haired, taciturn stripling,All aghast at his words, surprised, embarrassed, bewildered,Trying to mask his dismay by treating the subject with lightness,Trying to smile, and )Tet feeling his heart stand still in his bosom,Just as a time-piece stops in a house that is stricken by lightning,Thus made answer and spake, or rather stammered than answered:Such a message as that, I am sure I should mangle and mar it;If you would have it well done,—I am only repeating your maxim,—You must do it your

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