11. Leaning to the spring, etc.
The final horror, his face, fixes Hugh’s hate to a steady, burning purpose, seeming equal to his task.
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5. That waste to be surmounted as a wall,
6. Sky-rims and yet more sky-rims steep to climb—
In gazing across a vast space to the horizon, one seems to be looking uphill. This is especially noticeable on the ocean.
7. That simulacrum of enduring Time—
One traveling long distances by his own power, and having no means of measurement, conceives space not in miles, but in duration of effort.
8. The hundred empty miles ‘twixt him and where
Why “empty” miles?