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| Rose automatically as the sap in the twigs. | 1 |
| Bristling … like some mad Earth-god’s spiny hair. | 2 |
| Clear as the pure River of Life shown to the Evangelist. | 3 |
| Clinging … like pigeons on a roof-slope. | 4 |
| Clogged like a dripping pan. | 5 |
| Deep as annihilation. | 6 |
| Dignified as the Chapels-of-Ease. | 7 |
| Disappeared like a shape in a vision | 8 |
| Dividing like a splitting stick. | 9 |
| Dwindling away like echoes down a valley of rocks. | 10 |
| Rock firm as facts. | 11 |
| Flinch … like a plant in too burning a sun. | 12 |
| Ghastly as a laugh in hell. | 13 |
| Glistening … like the track of moonlight on the sea. | 14 |
| Glorified … like the angel St. John saw in the sun. | 15 |
| Hung heavy as an opiate. | 16 |
| Hesitating like a bather about to make his plunge. | 17 |
| Lurks like a mole underneath the visible surface of manners. | 18 |
| Pain … like the bitterness of dissolution. | 19 |
| Rapid as the shadow of a cloud. | 20 |
| Remaining, like marten-holes in a sand-cliff. | 21 |
| Soundless as a tomb. | 22 |
| Speeding … like an arrow. | 23 |
| Stirred … as the dive of a kingfisher stirs a quiet pool. | 24 |
| Swayed like a river weed. | 25 |
| Ticking like the love-making of a grasshopper. | 26 |
| Tossed … like a cork on the waves. | 27 |
| Transient as lightning. | 28 |
| Warm as a sunned cat. | 29 |
| Weak as a bled calf. | 30 |
Wearily,
Like those whom living tires. | 31 |
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