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VOCABULARY
priest], or one is used to illustrate some quality of the
other (type: honey-converse.]
1 (a) Starting with the genitive type, I take the more
striking examples one by one, and give a list of the others.
I, 33, As marriage-fodder, snuffed about of kine . . .
Ill, You seem a thing that hinges hold
A love-machine
With clock-work joints of supple gold —
No more, Faustine.
II, Dedication, Men bring you love-offerings of tears,
And sorrow the kiss that assuages,
And slaves the hate-offerings of wrongs . . .
227, These weak word-offerings wearisome.
Evidently the last three formations are analogies of
Biblical expressions (e. g. peace-offering, sin-offering).
It is clear that the sea will be found to be the source
of many compounds. I collect some of them here.
II, 7, Thou lulled with sea-sound of a thousand caves
And lit with sea-shine .. .
195, The long green heaving sea-field through . . .
III, 26, Flowers on salt wind and sprinkled sea-dews fed.
293, From field to green field of the water-world . . .
IV, 392, And the surf-smoke under it lies like fume . . .
Dew also gives the compound dew-flake (IV, 105),
with which we may compare rain-flake (IV, 260), and
sun-flake (IV, 189) — all on the analogy of snow-flake.
Tree, and flower, also give several cases of
composition. — We find
II, 76, The life-tree am I,
which is given in N. E. D. With this compare:
V, 216, Now the hand that smote the death-tree now disrooted
Plants the refuge-tree that has man’s hope for root;
Also IV, S, My singing sign that makes the song-tree flower.
Flower and blossom occur, for instance, in: breast-
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