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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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longer Priscilla, but Bertha, the Beautiful Spinner.Here the light foot on the treadle grew swifter and swifter; the spindleUttered an angry snarl, and the thread snapped short in her fingers;While the impetuous speaker, not heeding the mischief, continued: You are the beautiful Bertha, the spinner, the queen of Helvetia;She whose story I read at a stall in the streets of Southampton,Who, as she rode on her palfrey, oer valley and meadow and mountain.Ever was spinning her thread from a distaff fixed to her saddle.She was so thrifty and good, that her name passed into a proverb.So shall it be with your own, when the spinning-wheel shall no longerHum in the house of the farmer, and fill its chambers with music.Then shall the mothers, reproving, relate how it was in their childhood,Praising the good old times, and the days of Priscilla, the spinner!Straight uprose from her wheel the beautiful Puritan maiden,Pleased with the praise of her thrift from him whose praise was the sweetest, 134
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