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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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Somewhere have I read, but where I forget, he could dictateSeven letters at once, at the same time writing his memoirs. Truly, continued the Captain, not heeding or hearing the other, Truly a wonderful man was Caius Julius Caesar!Better be first, he said, in a little Iberian village,Than be second in Rome; and I think he was right when he said it.Twice was he married before he was twenty, and many times after;Battles five hundred he fought, and a thousand cities he conquered;He, too, fought in Flanders, as he himself has recorded;Finally he was stabbed by his friend, the orator Brutus!Now, do you know what he did on a certain occasion in Flanders,When the rear-guard of his army retreated, the front giving way, too,And the immortal Twelfth Legion was crowded so closely togetherThere was no room for their swords ? Why, he seized a shield from a soldier,Put himself straight at the head of his troops, and commanded the captains,Calling on each by his name, to order forward the ensigns; ^0
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. LOVE AND PRJE/NDSHTP Then to widen the ranks, and give more room for their weapons;So he won the day, the battle of something-or-other.Thats what I always say: if you wish a thing to be well done,You must do it yourself, you must not leave it to others! All was silent again; the Captain continued his reading. ^Nothing was heard in the room but the hurrying pen of the striplingWriting epistles important to go next day by the Mayflower,Filled with the name and the fame of the Puritan maiden Priscilla;Every sentence began or closed with the name of Priscilla,Till the treacherous pen, to which he confided the secret,Strove to betray it by singing and shouting the name of Priscilla!Finally closing his book, with a bang of the ponderous cover,Sudden and loud as the sound of a soldier grounding his musket,Thus to the young man spake Miles Standish, the Captain of Plymouth:When you have finished your work, I have something important to tell youBe not, however, in haste; I can wait; I shall

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