cedar-slabs

Updated: May 4, 2025

And all the immortals, sitting around the table of golden cedar-slabs, make merry when the clumsy Hephaistos, playing the part of Hebe, stumbles over a root and upsets the plate of cakes into the fire. The first little rapid of the Grande Decharge was only the beginning. Half a mile below we could see the river disappear between two points of rock.

Henry Van Dyke - Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness