3. For much is light and little is a load etc.
What is meant? The sentence is a paradox.
10. Whining because the milk they got was thinned etc.
The squaws with their crying babies are the material of the second scene, followed by the striplings.
14. How fair life is beyond the beckoning blue, etc.
“Distance lends enchantment.”
15. Cold-eyed the grandsires plodded, for they knew, etc.
Note contrasting words: striplings, grandsires; strutted, plodded.
One group saw visions, the other was disillusioned.
17. In what lone land.