Define: mottled, pluming.

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4. With pounding heart Hugh crawled along the height

Why “with pounding heart”?

15. Keen to possess once more the ancient gift.

Of Prometheus to man.

Define: doddering, burgeoning, tenuous.

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1. Arose, and made an altar of the place.

Fire worship is as old as the race. Hugh is the priest, the East Wind a religious novice who sings in the ceremonials, the night is the temple, and in response to the worship, “Conjuries of interwoven breath,” the fire god appears in the burning wood.