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(1913) [MARC] Author: August Strindberg Translator: Claud Field
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the machinery, look like angels or executioners,
and the never-ceasing stream of water rushes
from under the great never-resting wheel. Then
I reach the smithy with its bare-armed,
blackened workmen armed with tongs, choppers,
screw-vices, and hammers; amid the flames and
sparks of the furnace there lie red-glowing iron
and molten lead. There is a frightful din, which
makes my brain vibrate and my heart leap.
Farther on groans the great saw of the sawmill,
and tortures with gnashing teeth the giant
tree-trunks which lie on the block, while the
sawdust trickles down on the damp ground.

The ravine-path, terribly devastated by cyclones
and storms, continues along the stream;
the subsiding overflow has left a greyish-green
layer of mud behind, covering the sharp pebbles
on which my feet continually slip. I wish to
cross the water, but since the little bridge has
been swept away, I halt under a precipice whose
overhanging rock threatens to fall on an image
of the Virgin, who seems to support the sinking
hill on her tender shoulders.

Meditating on this combination of coincidences,
which, taken together, without being supernatural,
form a remarkable whole, I return home.

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