“Standing, with reluctant feet,
Where the brook and river meet,
Womanhood and childhood fleet!”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Maidenhood http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/12212, st. 3 (1842).

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American poet 1807–1882

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