9. From hill to hill the ancient hunger-song.
Hunger is the oldest form of suffering, and prayer for food the oldest prayer.
15. With some gray beast that fought with icy fang.
Why “icy” fang? “white world”?
Define: eerie, myriads.
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8. The herd would pass and vanish in the night
How long was the herd in passing?
During this time, and for fifty years thereafter, bison herds often covered the plains as far as the eye could see. In the 60’s travellers on the old Oregon trail often journeyed through one solid herd for as much as three days, and on either side the prairie was filled to the horizon.
23. So might a child assail the crowding sea!