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Title: The courtship of Miles Standish and other poems
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882
Subjects: Standish, Myles, 1584?-1656
Publisher: New York, Grosset & Dunlap
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ands, the serried billows, advancing.Fired along the line, and in regular order re-treated. Many a mile had they marched, when at lengththe village of Plymouth 6o THE COURTSHIP OF Woke from its sleep, and arose, intent on its mani-fold labors.Sweet was the air and soft; and slowly the smoke from the chimneysRose over roofs of thatch, and pointed steadily eastward;Men came forth from the doors, and paused and talked of the weather.Said that the wind had changed, and was blowing fair for the Mayflower;Talked of their Captains departure, and all the dangers that menaced.He being gone, the town, and what should be done in his absence.Merrily sang the birds, and the tender voices of womenConsecrated with hymns the common cares of the household.Out of the sea rose the sun, and the billows re-joiced at his coming;Beautiful were his feet on the purple tops of the mountains;Beautiful on the sails of the Mayflower riding at anchor.Battered and blackened and worn by all the storms of the winter.
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MILES STANDISH 6i Loosely against her masts was hanging and flap-ping her canvas,Rent by so many gales, and patched by the hands of the sailors.Suddenly from her side, as the sun rose over the ocean.Darted a puff of smoke, and floated seaward; anon rangLoud over field and forest the cannons roar, and the echoesHeard and repeated the sound, the signal-gun of departure!Ah! but with louder echoes replied the hearts of the people!Meekly, in voices subdued, the chapter was read from the Bible,Meekly the prayer was begun, but ended in fer-vent entreaty!Then from their houses in haste came forth the Pilgrims of Plymouth,Men and women and children, all hurrying down to the sea-shore.Eager, with tearful eyes, to say farewell to the Mayflower,Homeward bound oer the sea, and leaving them here in the desert. 62 THE COURTSHIP OF Foremost among them was Alden. All night he had lain without slumber,Turning and tossing about in the heat and unrest of his fever.He had beheld Miles Standish, who came b

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