=2.= Along the solid rear a dull boom runs!
Explain “solid rear.”
=11.= Reveals the butte-top tall and lonely there
=12.= Like some gray prophet contemplating doom.
The second time the butte has been described.
=16.= Ghosts of the ancient forest—or old rain, etc.
Geology tells us that these plains were once covered with
forests.
=19.= That e’er evolving, ne’er resolving sound
=20.= Gropes in the stifling hollow of the night.
Never fully developing. “Evolving,” “resolving”—technical
expressions in music.