Angels and Women (1924)

206 ANGELS AND WOMEN
lightning flash that revealed it--a beautiful
woman (her dress a queen’s) with an infant
pressed to her snowy bosom, while by the
hand she led a child whose strong features
and powerful limbs too surely betrayed a
celestial parentage. Her hair and garments
streamed in the wind, which she vainly
strove to breast, and her voice of despair
sounded shrill above the roar of the storm--
"Save us, 00wadu, save us 1"
Alas l far from the reach of her voice, in
chains of darkness, was Owadu, awaiting the
Judgment of the Last Day l
In another instant all sense and feeling
were absorbed in the jarring shock that we
ourselves experienced. The floods rushed
together, sky and ocean mingled, the writhing
vapors were torn by a mighty force, the
floodgates of heaven were opened and an inundation
from the clouds swelled the wild
waters already surging through the valley.
The sharp lightning flashes split the heavy
vault, the dun air was whirled into a tornado,