1. The bluffs loomed eerie, and the scanty trees
Describe the appearance of the trees.
15. The tumbling snowflakes sighing all around,
What associations brought Hugh a dream of boyhood?
18. The Southwind in the tousled apple trees
19. And slumber flowing from their leafy gloom.
These lines are an intentional “literary echoing” of one of the most beautiful of the Sapphic fragments,—fragment 4 in Bergk’s text.
Define: penumbral, susurrant.
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The blizzard is a storm characteristic of the plains. It generally lasts three days, is terribly cold, and the whirling snow is blinding.