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S.H.D. Commonplace Book (16:35:1), Martha Dickinson Bianchi Collection, John Hay Library, Brown University Libraries |
hiding behind a boulder - Suddenly the Sun seems to have flashed on the opposite is only a mimosa g[iven?] in full yellow flower! You turn up a sharp V- to get around a gorge and it is lined as daintily as a milliner could do it, from top to bottom with little Austrian pines - smooth as a bear's back and at the foot an arm of the sea - silent and lurching - It is all the [?] side of nature one feels there! Suddenly the sea comes half over the road - after circles of descent like a hawk on its chicken - and you draw up your feet unconsciously as the gust breakers hurry toward you - they seem so alive! so ravenous! At the sea line a peak rises |
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 Transcription and commentary copyright 1998 by Martha Nell Smith, Laura Elyn Lauth, and Lara Vetter, all rights reserved Maintained by Rebecca Mooney <rnmooney@umd.edu> Last updated on January 23, 2008 |
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