sorrows. For, my father, it seemed to me that I stood upon the bank of

a great and wide river. It was gloomy there, the light lay low upon

the face of the river, but far away on the farther side was a glow

like the glow of a stormy dawn, and in the glow I saw a mighty bed of

reeds that swayed about in the breath of dawn, and out of the reeds

came men and women and children, by hundreds and thousands, and

plunged into the waters of the river and were buffeted about by them.

Now, my father, all the people that I saw in the water were black