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Mouths and Waters
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Mouths and Waters ...the grandest sight I ever beheld...the rocks below receiving the water in its passage down and breaks it into a perfect white foam which assumes a thousand forms in a moment. -Meriwether Lewis, June 13, 1805 The beauty a the sandstone thighs stayed with the party 'til we reached the falls a the M'soura. The laughing an singing in the distance grew louder the closer we came. When we finally feast us eyes on a wide wet woman dancing an leaping with joy off the rocks an raining down her own rainbow, our mouths fall open an we commence to dance an shout like a field fulla colored chil'ren d'scovering tobacco leaves made a gold an sweat be sweet as honey. ...