The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems. by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

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Excerpt from The Courtship of Miles And Other PoemsLong at the window he stood, and wistfully gazed on the landscape; So through the Plymouth woods John Aiden went on his errand; Said, in a tremulous voice, "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?"; Near them was standing an Indian, in attitude stern and defiant; Eager, with tearful eyes, to say farewell to the May-flower; Homeward bound o'er the sea, and leaving them here in the desert