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,