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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 Song of Hiawatha - Page 127
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1861 - 316 pages
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 48

1856 - 1432 pages
...and action. Here is the account of his hero's wooing : " ' As unto the bow the cord is, . So unto the man is woman, Though she bends him, she obeys him,...Listless, longing, hoping, fearing, Dreaming still of Minnuhaha, Of the lovely Laughing Water, In the land of the Dacotahs. ' Wed a maiden of your people,'...
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The Irish Quarterly Review, Volume 6, Part 1

1856 - 706 pages
...lucid interval), beautifully and truthfully tells us. " A« nnto the bow the cord !», So unto the man Is woman, Though she bends him, she obeys him,...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 - 1855 - 344 pages
...Shared it equally among them. 127 X. HIAWATHA'S WOOING. 1 " As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman, Though she bends him, she obeys him,...still of Minnehaha, Of the lovely Laughing Water, In the land of the Dacotahs. " Wed a maiden of your people," Warning said the old Nokomis ; " Go not...
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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 Poetical Works of Henry W[adsworth] Longfellow, Volume 2

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 346 pages
...people , Shared it equally among them. HIAWATHA'S WOOING. "As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman, Though she bends him , she obeys him,...still of Minnehaha , Of the lovely Laughing Water, In the land of the Dacotahs. " Wed a maiden of your people ," Warning said the old Nokomis ; "Go not...
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The Canadian Journal of Industry, Science and Art

1856 - 602 pages
...the Indian has scarcely realised. How graphic is this: — "As unto the how the cord is, So unto the man is woman ; Though she bends him, she obeys him,...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 Orator: A Monthly Magazine of Speeches, Plays, Dialogues ..., Volume 1

1857 - 280 pages
...for the same number of pages of prose. HIAWATHA'S WOOING. "As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman, Though she bends him, she obeys him,...still of Minnehaha, Of the lovely Laughing Water, In the land of the Dacotahs. / 88 THE ORATOR. Like the starlight or the moonlight Is the handsomest...
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A Second Class Reader: Consisting of Extracts, in Prose and Verse, for the ...

George Stillman Hillard - 1858 - 348 pages
...Water, Nokomis is hi mother, by whom he had been brought up.] " As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman ; Though she bends him, she obeys him,...still of Minnehaha, Of the lovely Laughing Water, In the land of the Dacotahs. " Wed a maiden of your people," Warning said the old Nokomis ; " Go not...
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The Book of the Great Railway Celebrations of 1857: Embracing a Full Account ...

William Prescott Smith - 1858 - 566 pages
...but a furnished sepulchre. We cannot live without them — " As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman ; Though she bends him, she obeys him...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
...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...him, yet she follows, Useless each without the other ;" Therefore we venture, fully aware of the extreme delicacy of the undertaking, to attempt a portrait,...
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