“It is the fate of a woman
Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless,
Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence.”

—  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Courtship of Miles Standish

Part VI.
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858)

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