=2.= The Niobrara races for the morn—
Locate the Niobrara. It is a very swift stream. Note the entire
description of the coming of spring on the prairie. It is a
lyric and includes a description of both late and early-coming
of spring.
=3.= Here at length was born
Upon the southern slopes the baby spring, etc.
A slow spring.
=6.= Not such as when announced by thunder-claps etc.
A description of a swiftly coming spring.
=9.= Clad splendidly as never Sheba’s Queen,
Sheba’s Queen—The Bible, 1st Kings.
=15.= And no root dreamed what Triumph-over-Death
=16.= Was nurtured now in some bleak Nazareth, etc.
The coming of spring suggests the resurrection.
=19.= And everywhere the Odic Presence dwelt.
“Odic”: from “od,” an arbitrary scientific term signifying the
mysterious vital force in nature.
=21.= And when they reached the valley of the Snake,
Locate the Snake.
=22.= The Niobrara’s ice began to break,
The next step in the coming of spring.