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=8.= It was the hour when cattle straggle home etc.

A fine lyric. This is one of many memory pictures of Hugh’s

travels. Nothing in the poem tells directly of Hugh’s past.

This silence suggests tragedy dimly illumined by the memory

pictures. Is Hugh an imaginative man? Enumerate the evening

sounds. Note the steps marking the transition from evening to

night. How many days has Hugh crawled? Hugh is known to have

been a Pennsylvanian of Scotch descent.

Define “peripheries.”

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