Par.
1 3 | memories I have, connected with that river that you see
2 5 | gently laps its banks covered with whispering reeds.~
3 13| whispered by the slender reeds, with their little soft voices,
4 16| was pretty tired, rowing with difficulty my big boat,
5 18| boat floated downstream with the current, to the end
6 20| me. I sprang to my feet with a single bound. The water
7 21| but all in vain. Then, with my oars, I turned the boat
8 21| oars, I turned the boat with its head up stream to change
9 23| white in the moonlight, with big black patches rising
10 23| very idea made me tremble with fear. I saw myself, lost,
11 23| escape, my breath rattling with fear, neither seeing the
12 25| I tried to reason with myself. My will made me
13 26| my ears on the stretch with expectation. Of what? I
14 27| me, and I began to shout with all my might towards all
15 28| sleeping, my eyes wide open, with nightmares all about me.
16 28| At last I raised myself with infinite caution as though
17 29| which shone in the moonlight with the dazzling brilliance
18 29| nothing but the river gleaming with light between these two
19 32| the corpse of an old women with a big stone round her neck.~
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