=7.= A yelping of the dogs among the bluffs, etc.
The one sound in the desolate night, the yelping of the dogs,
starts a train of ideas. The power of abstraction has made man
able to survive where less intelligent forms have perished.
Flint can be used to skin a dog, so can steel, the two smitten
together make fire, so Hugh found his “unlocked door to life.”
=22.= Spilled on it from the smitten stone a shower
=23.= Of ruddy seed; and saw the mystic flower
=24.= That genders its own summer, bloom anew!
Explain the metaphor.
An absolutely new figure regarding fire.