=3.= Yet had the pleasant lie befriended him,
=4.= And now the brutal fact had come to stare.
What was the “pleasant lie”? The brutal fact?
=7.= And nursed that deadly adder of the soul,
=8.= Self-pity. Let the crows swoop down and feed, etc.
Sentimentalism is soul-flabbiness.
=15.= And lo, a finger-nail, etc.
The accumulation of great results by infinitesimal accretions is
one of the everlasting surprises in life.
=21.= So fare the wise on Pisgah.
How do the wise use their Pisgahs? To enjoy or to inspire to
further effort?
Define: facture, dwarfed, Titan, triumvirate.