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The Truth Of Woman

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Woman's faith, and woman's trust     Write the characters in the dust;     Stamp them on the running stream,     Print them on the moon's pale beam,     And each evanescent letter     Shall be clearer, firmer, better,     And more permanent, I ween,     Than the thing those letters mean.     I have strain'd the spider's thread     'Gainst the promise of a maid;     I have weigh'd a grain of sand     'Gainst her plight of heart and hand;     I told my true love of the token,     How her faith proved light, and her word was broken:     Again her word and truth she plight,     And I believed them again ere night.

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