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=6.= With Spring’s wild rage, the snow-born Titan girl, etc.

The Yellowstone is larger at the junction than is the Missouri.

Hence the Missouri is the Titan girl rushing into the arms of

her lover. But in the winter with snow covering the ice, “A

winding sheet was on the marriage bed.” Why “snow-born”?

=15.= Gray void seemed suddenly astir with wings etc.

Note onomatopœia in the lines indicating that snow begins to

fall.

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