As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman, Though she bends him, she obeys… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman, Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him, yet she follows, Useless each without the other!
The Song of Hiawatha · 1855
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Song of Hiawatha." Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings, edited by J. D. McClatchy. Library of America, 2000, pt. 10.
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Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1855, pt. 10.
