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_Passage in Locksley Hall_ (Vol. vii., p. 25.).--If Tennyson really meant
his readers to gather from the lines in question, that the curlew's _call
gleams_ about the moorland, he used a very bold figure of speech, yet one
not uncommon in the vivid language of Greece. For example:
"[Greek: Paian de lampei stonoessa te nêrus homaulos.]"
And again,
"[Greek: Elampse ... artiôs phaneisa phama.]" (Sophocles.)
So also,
"[Greek: Boa prepei.]" (Pindar and Æschylus.)
May it not, however, be just possible that Tennyson did not mean
_anything_?