...that prompted, nor the experience that justified the Indian woman's petition to the Great Father : ' Let not my child be a girl, for very sad is the life of a woman.' Her disappointment at the sex of her infant was a purely conventional feeling, and...

...the glorious bowers where none are heard to weep. (107-8) In a poem for which one of the epigraphs is "Let not my child be a girl, for very sad is the life of a woman" (104), the Indian woman's death-song claims the paternal river for deliverance to...

...que je m'unisse aux esprits libres de 1'air. — Bride of Messina, Translated by Madame de Stae'lt Let not my child be a girl, for very sad is the life of a woman. — The Prairie* Down a broad river of the Western wilds, Piercing thick forest glooms,...