=1.= The bluffs loomed eerie, and the scanty trees
Describe the appearance of the trees.
=15.= The tumbling snowflakes sighing all around,
What associations brought Hugh a dream of boyhood?
=18.= The Southwind in the tousled apple trees
=19.= And slumber flowing from their leafy gloom.
These lines are an intentional “literary echoing” of one of the
most beautiful of the Sapphic fragments,—fragment 4 in Bergk’s
text.
Define: penumbral, susurrant.