Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 617
d the other said: Yes! Ah!—Yes! — A-A-Ah!So, black of wing as was the storm, they flew,And that this was the sky they loved, I knew;For high above the wind I heard their voicesStill, glad as a child or bluebird that rejoices:What fine weather ! Caw! What weather ! Cazv!Ah yes \—Ah!—What weather… … It was the month of May, and the Amazon Riverwas sweeping down to the sea, six hundred milesaway, in the majesty of a stream ten miles wideand ninety feet deep. For a month past, it hadrisen at Santarem at the rate of nearly a footper day, and its every tributary was swollen bythe melting snows of…
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