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" As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman, Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him, yet she follows, Useless each without the other... "
The Poetical Works - Page 183
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1886
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The Irish Quarterly Review, Volume 6, Part 1

1856 - 706 pages
...Poet, (in a lucid interval), beautifully and truthfully tells us. " A« nnto the bow the cord !», So unto the man Is woman, Though she bends him, she...him. yet she follows, Useless each without the other ' " Hiawatha wooes and wins Hinnehaha, the Laughing Water, and the daughter of the " ancient arrow-maker."...
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The Song of Hiawatha

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 320 pages
...who sent the fiery fever, Sent the white fog from the fen-lands, Sent disease and death among its ! " Ever dear to Hiawatha Was the memory of Mama! And...him, yet she follows, Useless each without the other ! " Thuo the youthful Hiawatha Said within himself and pondered, Much perplexed by various feelings,...
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The Guardian, Volumes 6-7

1855 - 902 pages
...grave is illumined with love and hope. MAN AND WO MAN As unto the bow the cord is, tio unto the mnn is woman, Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though...him, yet she follows, Useless each without the other. — SONO OP HIAWATHA. 70 Good Friday. [March, GOOD FRIDAY. FROM THE GERMAN — ST THE EDITOR. GRADUALLY...
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The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science and Art

1856 - 602 pages
...form to thoughts which the Indian has scarcely realised. How graphic is this: — "As unto the how the cord is, So unto the man is woman ; Though she...him yet she follows, Useless each without the other! " How finely, too, the very profoundness of the forethought of the Indian Cadmus, who would teach his...
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The Book of the Great Railway Celebrations of 1857: Embracing a Full Account ...

William Prescott Smith - 1858 - 566 pages
...homes ? A house, uncheered by them, seems but a furnished sepulchre. We cannot live without them — " As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman...yet she follows ; Useless each, without the other." Night was now approaching, and the company left the grounds to return to the city. Here, as elsewhere,...
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The History of Minnesota: From the Earliest French Explorations to the ...

Edward Duffield Neill - 1858 - 652 pages
...character. Their names are attached to the thriving counties of Ramsey, Rice, Sibley, and Steele. " As unto the bow, the cord is, So unto the man is the woman, Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him, yet she follows, Useless each...
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Beautiful poetry, selected by the ed. of The Critic, Volume 6

Beautiful poetry - 1859 - 420 pages
...dark rain, through which the sun arose Scarce visible, and in his orb confused. HORNE. MAN AND WOMAN. As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman,...him yet she follows, Useless each without the other. THE SECRET OF THE SEA. By LONGFELLOW. As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, AH ! what...
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Gleanings from the Harvest Fields of Literature: A Melange of Excerpta ...

Charles Carroll Bombaugh - 1860 - 538 pages
...choice epicurean dainty. As unto the bow the cord is, So unto tho l11,i:1 is woman: Though she bonds him, she obeys him ; Though she draws him, yet she follows ; Useless each witheut tho other. — Hiawutha. MRS. JAMESON, speaking of the mistaken belief that there are essential...
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The St. James's Magazine, Volume 1

1861 - 522 pages
...inviolate. The one poet, in a world of prose, has happily expressed the nature of this holy union — " As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman. Though she bends him, she obeys him ; Though she lends him, still she follows — Useless one without the other." Marriage, in my eyes, is no more a...
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Our Whole Country: Or, The Past and Present of the United States ..., Volume 2

John Warner Barber, Henry Howe - 1861 - 748 pages
...counties of Ramsey, Rice, Sibley, and Steele. * As unto the bow, the cord Is, So unto the man i- the woman. Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though...yet she follows, Useless each without the other.' " Fort SneUing, originally called Fort St. Anthony, is a noted point in the history of Minnesota. It...
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