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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 835

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amlet more perplexed than obstructed its course, turned it aside through anarrow channel and forced it to rush in a confusedperilous way over a wheel. Alas! cried the Streamlet; is it then forthis agony 1 was born ? But after some wild splashes the Streamletfound itself at peace again and went on… … before. Its first creed was gone. Then a rosycloud floated in the sky and mirrored itself in thebosom of the Stream. This, it cried, is a token of Paradise ! But a wind ruffled the water, and the tintedcloud was mirrored no more; and when theStreamlet became still again the rosy cloud hadpassed…

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