Then the imagination which has made the conception into form adorns it.

It creates the plain, the encircling mountains, one cloudy peak higher than the rest; as we mount we look on the plain below; we reach the city on the hill, pass it, and climb the hill-top; there are all the high-flying birds, the meteors, the lightnings, the thickest dew.

And we lay our dead on the peak, above the plain.

This is the scenery, the imaginative ornament, and all through it we are made to hear the chant of the students; and so lifting is the melody of the verse we seem to taste the air, fresher and fresher as we climb.

Then, finally, into the midst of this flows for us the eager intensity of the scholar.