they gathered midway around the wooded and there fading glory shone like host in battle overthrew elongate the idea of the following line
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Explanation:
In this stanza, the poet describes a visit of his to the hills. On this visit, he stood still and looked up at the sky, which seemed to form an arch in his field of vision. This entire arch of the sky was lit up with the sun’s glow as it was getting ready to rise. The woods that covered the hills that Longfellow was visiting and the valleys that stretched out between and beneath them were also lit up. A soft breeze was blowing over the landscape. As he was standing on the summit of a mountain, the poet could see clouds floating below the level he himself was. The sun was shining over the clouds and appeared midway between the summit and the ground level and around the forests that grew all over the hills. The clouds also have their glory in Longfellow’s opinion, as does everything else – great or small – on this earth. However, that glory had paled in comparison to the glory of the rising sun. The poet imagines that the sun and the clouds were locked in battle, as so many armies have been through the ages, and that finally, the sun has won. The clouds have been defeated and are hiding away now. The poet also noticed other things around him as well. He saw how every mountain around him seemed to raise a lance with its pointed tip shattering the sky above it. Every cliff was bare, except for one where a pine tree stood still awaiting the sunlight. This pine tree appeared to have been destroyed, split into half, and bereft of all leaves as if it had been struck by lightning. Suddenly, in the midst of all this, the clouds disappeared. The poet imagines the clouds as a veil covering a woman’s face as soon as the clouds are lifted, the valley beneath shines in the sunlight. Along this valley, a river was flowing. A part of the river fell under the shade cast by trees of the hilly forest, and another part of it shone in the sunlight as a waterfall was created along its length. Far above all this, as the day was lengthening, the poet saw a bittern flying in a spiral and chirping away.