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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: along through the rapids, and drifting slowly through the still
places, now grounding on a hidden rock, and now sweeping around a
sharp curve, until at length we saw the roofs of Metapedia and the
ugly bridge of the railway spanning the river. There we left our
floating house, awkward and helpless, like some strange relic of
the flood, stranded on the shore. And as we climbed the bank we
looked back and wondered whether Noah was sorry when he said good-
bye to his ark.
1888.
ALPENROSEN AND GOAT'S MILK
Nay, let me tell you, there be many that have forty times our
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