THE

Courtship of Miles
Standish.

BY

HENRY W. LONGFELLOW.

Ellustrated.

a

BOSTON:

JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY,
Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co.

1876.

Copyright, 1858, by

HENRY W. LONGFELLOW.

EDICATION DEP

University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co., Cambridge.

N the Old Colony days, in Plymouth
the land of the Pilgrims,
To and fro in a room of his simple
and primitive dwelling,

Clad in doublet and hose, and boots of Cordo

van leather,

Strode, with a martial air, Miles Standish the

Puritan Captain.

Buried in thought he seemed, with his hands behind him, and pausing

Ever and anon to behold his glittering weapons

of warfare,

Hanging in shining array along the walls of the chamber,