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VOCABULARY
IV, 34, Over the mid sea’s grey foam-pavcn floors . . .
394, Till their corpses have covered and clothed as with
raiment the face of the sword-ploughed
field.
V, 56, Thou wast as very Christ — not he
Degraded into Deity,
And priest-polluted by such prayer
As poisons air . . .
212, . . . mocked as whom fen-fire leads
By the creed-wrought faith of faithless souls that mock
their doubts with creeds.
Perhaps we must suppose into rather than by.
VI, 106, And many a lie-seared lip ...
Without doubt a metrical motive may be traced in
some of these formations, but in most of the cases the
aim at an image has been more important to the poet than
the musical effect.
1 have already mentioned that certain verbs seem to
be preferred in combinations of this kind, e. g. strike. To
a basis like viper-stricken (II, 310) we may trace the
following formations.
II, 77, All forms of all faces,
All works of all hands
In unsearchable places
Of time-stricken lands ...
123, When crowned and weaponed and curbless
It shall walk without helm or shield
The bare burnt furrows and herbless
Of war’s last flame-stricken field ...
125, It is one with the world’s generations,
With the spirit, the star, and the sod;
With the kingless and king-stricken nations . . .
273, Yea, let all sceptre-stricken nations lie.
V, 130, Dead and gone the days we had together,
Shadow-stricken all the lights that shone . . .
Somewhat different from these is perhaps the
following instance:
II, 29, Master, what of the night?
Child, night is not all
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