Woman's faith, and woman's trust - <br />Write the characters in the dust; <br />Stamp them on the running stream, <br />Print them on the moon's pale beam, <br />And each evanescent letter <br />Shall be clearer, firmer, better, <br />And more permanent, I ween, <br />Than the thing those letters mean. <br /> <br />I have strain'd the spider's thread <br />'Gainst the promise of a maid; <br />I have weigh'd a grain of sand <br />'Gainst her plight of heart and hand; <br />I told my true love of the token, <br />How her faith proved light, and her word was broken: <br />Again her word and truth she plight, <br />And I believed them again ere night.<br /><br />Sir Walter Scott<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-truth-of-woman/
