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SAMARITAN WOMAN.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

How can it be that thou,

Being a Jew, askest to drink of me

Which am a woman of Samaria?

You Jews despise us; have no dealings with us;

Make us a byword; call us in derision

The silly folk of Sychar. Sir, how is it

Thou askest drink of me?