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IRature StuMes in Bcrf^ebire. 



the mysterious cycle which must complete itself 

 before the skies shall yield their reviving store, and 

 the great storms travel from the west and from the 

 south, and the soil drink deep and slake its awful 

 thirst, while every parched and needy herb laughs 

 in a long-deferred glee. 



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