The one sound in the desolate night, the yelping of the dogs, starts a train of ideas. The power of abstraction has made man able to survive where less intelligent forms have perished.
Flint can be used to skin a dog, so can steel, the two smitten together make fire, so Hugh found his “unlocked door to life.”
22. Spilled on it from the smitten stone a shower
23. Of ruddy seed; and saw the mystic flower
24. That genders its own summer, bloom anew!
Explain the metaphor.
An absolutely new figure regarding fire.
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10. Set laggard singers snatching at the tune.
What “laggard singers”?