... at the forest on the bank of the stream, saw the individual trees, the leaves and the veining of each leaf----saw the very insects upon them: the locusts, the brilliant bodied flies, the gray spiders stretching their webs from twig to twig. He noted the prismatic colors in all the dewdrops upon a million blades of grass. The humming of the gnats that danced above the ... eddies of the steam , the beating of the dragon flies" wings ... the strokes of water spiders legs, like oars which had lifted their boat--- all these made audible music. A fish slid a long beneath his ... ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... the hanging rope had broken, and he was eventually reunited with his family; far from the reaches of the northern soldiers. The first hint of Peyton's actual fate is introduced as he has apparently fallen from the bridge as the northern soldiers ... the leaves of the trees and the "Prismatic colors of the dewdrops upon a million blades of grass". These visions are not those of someone who is still of this earth, but those of an individual whom has past on from the mortal world. The combination of the sinking ... further into darkness, Peyton's accent into the light, and the clarity at ...

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