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When the Indians had lit their little "light Wood" candles these huts must have been delightful places, full of jolly talk and merry music. Outside, by the river-brink, the frogs would croak; and, perhaps, the adventurers heard "the shriekings of Snakes and other Insects," such as scared Lionel Wafer there about a century later.
If there the meanest shed Yield thee a hearth and a shelter for thy head, And some poor plot, with vegetables stored, Be all that Heaven allots thee for thy board, Unsavory bread, and herbs that scatter'd grow Wild on the river-brink, or mountain-brow; Yet e'en this cheerless mansion shall provide More heart's repose than all the world beside.
The great names began to flit past, like palaces on a river-brink, their bases washed by the pouring liturgy Peter and Paul, Simon and Thaddeus, Cosmas and Damian vast pleasure houses alight with God, while near at hand now gleamed the line of the infinite ocean.
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