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Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II (of 2)

CHAPTER XLIV
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He has pinioned us hip and arm that we starve.

Like sheep we die off with the rot .-- Curse on the magician.

A curse on his spell." Bending our steps toward the glen, roaring down the rocks we descried a stream from the mountains.

But ere those waters gained the sea, vassal tribute they rendered.

Conducted through culverts and moats, they turned great wheels, giving life to ten thousand fangs and fingers, whose gripe no power could withstand, yet whose touch was soft as the velvet paw of a kitten.


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