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14. When sleep is weirdest and a moment’s flight,
Dreams often come just before waking.
20. Hoof-smitten leagues consuming in a dust.
What is the syntax of “leagues”? Explain the line.
23. A corpse, yet heard the muffled parleying etc.
Note how the idea that he was really dead haunts Hugh both sleeping and waking. Find other places in the poem where this is true.
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3. The babble flattened to a blur of gray—
A comparison of sound to light.