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An artist's letters from Japan (1897)

La Farge, John, 1835-1910 · New York, The Century co. · leaf 278

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ons to me when he bademe good-by at the landing in Otzu. An ocean rolls be-tween his Parnassus and ours, but he lives much nearerto the mood that once made beautiful the names of Tempe^ 1and Helicon and the winding Meander. ^ With all this dreaming I fell asleep, and woke freefrom pain, but stupid… … FUSI-YAMA FROM KAMBARA BEACH. ours, with the same look of the railroad being laid down— imposed — on an earth which did not understandwhat it all meant — grass struggling to get back tothe sides of filled-up ditches ; timbers lying about; new,astonished buildings, in one of which we washed,…

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