“Maidens hearts are always soft:
Would that men's were truer!”

— William Cullen Bryant

Song: Dost Thou Idly Ask To Hear http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16341/16341-h/16341-h.htm#page62, st. 1 (1832)

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American romantic poet and journalist 1794–1878

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