6. Not such as when announced by thunder-claps etc.
A description of a swiftly coming spring.
9. Clad splendidly as never Sheba’s Queen,
Sheba’s Queen—The Bible, 1st Kings.
15. And no root dreamed what Triumph-over-Death
16. Was nurtured now in some bleak Nazareth, etc.
The coming of spring suggests the resurrection.
19. And everywhere the Odic Presence dwelt.
“Odic”: from “od,” an arbitrary scientific term signifying the mysterious vital force in nature.
21. And when they reached the valley of the Snake,