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I openedin at the open doorhereby I judgedout of the cave stood aht's storm For everywhere lay trees torn and uprooted, and in divers of the more exposed places the wind it seemed had swept them utterly away, so that the landscape here and there wore an air unfah the as died away I saw the sea yet rolling tempestuous to break in foa down on Deliverance Beach I beheld its white sands littered with piles of driftwood, and over all a cloudless blue with the sun new-risen and very hot

And now taking h for rod, I went forth to angle for breakfast Reaching the lagoon great wonder was it to behold these waters so smooth and placid while the surf foamed and thundered beyond the reef I now baited ; nor had I long to wait ere I felt a jerk onwith the joy of it I whipped h the air, and flying fro on the sands behind ht hihty dexterous to filchmore expert, contrived to land five likely fish of different sizes and of

So there sat I in the shade of a rock, hty content and quite lost in the joy of aze, I beheldaway across the troubled ocean And beholding all the grace of her as she stood there, her shapely figure poised and outlined against the blue sky, her long hair rippling in the soft wind, I clean forgot orous beauty of her until now And in thisins to descend these rocks, leaping sure-footed frooddess of theer of these rocks, watched her with breath in check andni all joyous to le and foundat my discomfiture