Why “more terribly alone”?
21. Pale vagrants from the legendry of death
Pale vagrants, i.e. ghosts.
Define: funereal, alien, legendry, potential.
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6. For, though the graybeard fought with sobbing breath, etc.
A wrestling match in which death has a “strangling grip” on Hugh. Note the vividness of physical imagery, “neck veins like a purple thong tangled with knots.” What biblical allusion in “break upon the hip”?
11. There where the trail forked outward far and dim;
What “trail forked outward”?
13. His moan went treble like a song of pain,