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O Woman! in our hours of ease,
Uncertain, coy, and hard to please,
And variable as the shade
By the light quivering upon aspen made;
When pain and anguish wring the brow,
A ministering angel thou!

Sir Walter Scott

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Scott, Walter, Sir. Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field. Edinburgh: Archibald Constable and Co./London: William Miller and John Murray, 1808, canto 6, st. 30.

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O Woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering upon aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!