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Perhaps you remember Milton's description of a summer noon in the country: "Hard by a cottage chimney smokes Fnom betwixt two aged oaks, Where Corydon and Thyrsis met Are at their savory dinner set Of herbs and other country messes Which the neat-handed Phillis dresses; And then in haste her bower she leaves With Thestylis to bind the sheaves Or, if the earlier season lead, To the tanned haycock in the mead. " At first reading, the conventional pastoral names familiar to Milton's readers make t...he lines sound artificial to us. Yet doubtless Milton was remembering with keen appreciation just the sort of scene 222 NOTES described more fully here; and three hundred years hence, some poet will be mirroring the beauty of a similar scene according to the fashion of his age. Just at present we are favoring realistic detail, 'carefully observed but touched with unexpected bits of imagination. Point out vivid instances in this poem. AN INDIAN SUMMER DAY ON THE PRAIRIE Page 56. (From The Congo) If Nicholas Vachel Lindsay could be persuaded to write an auto- biography, it would make fascinating reading.
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