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Walter Scott - 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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