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Updated: May 21, 2025
There is a second gateway to be passed before you can enter the gorge itself. There are rock-doves and falcons fluttering about the sunny precipices; cliff-swallows build precarious habitations against the roof of yawning caverns; sandpipers and wagtails skim over the streamlet that glides in a smiling flood across reaches of yellow sand. The charm of water in the waste!
A bitter wind has sprung from the East and is now flitting with icy ardor over the grass and streamlet; through the bare branches of the trees, too, it flies, creating music of a mournful kind as it rushes onward. "Last night I dreamt of you," says Stephen, at last. "And what of me?" asks she, bending slightly down over him, as he lies at her feet in his favorite position.
The gongs warned visitors ashore, and, just as all the whistles of San Francisco were blowing the noon hour, we backed away from the dock, and turned our head to sea. As the little line of green water between ship and dock widened to a streamlet and then to a river, the first qualm concerning the wisdom of the expedition struck its chilly way to my heart.
Nature I court in her sequestered haunts, By mountain, meadow, streamlet, grove or cell, Where the poised lark his evening ditty chaunts, And Health, and Peace, and Contemplation dwell. So long had the soldier been delayed by his interviews with Prudence and the Assistant, that it was not until past noon that he reached the knight's residence.
Above, the heavens were more clear than her own Italian clime, more blue than any color that tinges the flowers of the earth. She roved along the smiling bank which fringed the stream until the setting sun dyed with the richest purple the rocky pinnacles in the distance, and made the streamlet glow like a golden flood.
She glanced up again at the bobolink, who had ceased his song; she nodded to him once as if for a challenge, and then, still leaning back upon the breeze, and keeping time with the flower in her hand, she broke out into a happy song: "I heard a streamlet gushing From out its rocky bed, Far down the valley rushing, So fresh and clear it sped."
The stillness of things was disturbed by a bird coming to the streamlet to drink. After watching him dip his bill, sprinkle himself, and fly into a tree, Knight replied, with the courteous brusqueness she so much liked to hear 'Elfride, now you may as well be fair. You would mind my doing it but little, I think; so give me leave, do.
After dinner we found the chairs waiting for us on the beach, and proceeded to the village, ascending a deep ravine with a streamlet running down the centre, overshadowed by the most luxuriant foliage. After emerging from this ravine we found ourselves near the highest point of the island, of which we had a good view.
I went back to smile farewell to Cherry-Cheeks and deal out my bribes, but was after them before they had trotted a stone's throw. They were cantering towards the bridge by which the high street of the town crosses a tiny streamlet and again becomes the high road to the north-west.
Behind the thick thorns hid the course of the streamlet, in front rose the solid rock, upon the right hand the sward came to the edge it shook every now and then as the horses in the shade of the elms stamped their feet on the left hand the ears of wheat peered over the verge. A rocky cell in concentrated silence of green things.
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