Line 32: “Glistered”- To glisten. Also, an archaic word for glitter (OED).
Line 32: “Salver”- One who salves or heals; applied to Christ or the Virgin Mary (OED).
Line 33: “Crucible”- A vessel made of a refractory substance such as graphite or porcelain, used for melting and calcining materials at high temperatures (OED).
'Melting Crucible,' by 'Skatebiker.' Gold melting inside a crucible. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Line 34: “Sluiced”- To sluice means to flood or drench with or as if with a flow of released water (OED).
Line 36: “Hesperus”- The planet Venus in its appearance as the evening star. Also a reference to Greek Mythology, Hesperus is the son of Eos and Eosphorus (OED).
'Altar Selen Louvre,' photographed by Marie-Lan Nguyen. A relief of the Moon-goddess Selene flanked by Phosphorus, the Morning Star, and Hesperus the Evening Star. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Line 47: “‘-Recorders ages hence’”- Reference to the poem “Recorders Ages Hence” by Walt Whitman, published in his collection Leaves of Grass in 1891. Courtesy of the
Whitman Archive.
'Leaves of Grass Author's Copy,' by Dodd, Mead and Co., 1898. Walt Whitman's personal copy of "Leaves of Grass." Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Line 50: “Paumanok”- Another reference to a Walt Whitman poem titled “Starting from Paumanok.” Courtesy of the
Whitman Archive. Paumanok Path is also a trail leading from Long Island to Rocky Point, New York.
'Jaynes Hill Summit,' by Daniel Case. Summit of Jayne's Hill, New York the highest point in Suffolk County. Whitman's poem "Paumanok" is inscribed on this stone. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
Line 54: “O Saunterer”- Further reference to the poem “Recorders Ages Hence” by Walt Whitman. Line 19-20 of this poem reads “Who oft as he saunter’d the streets curv’d with his arm the shoul-der of his friend…” Courtesy of the Whitman Archive. Much of this section is reference to Whitman’s poetry.
Line 56: “Great Navigator”- Likely a reference to Walt Whitman, following the crux of the rest of this section.
'Walt Whitman 1872,' by Frank E. Pearsall. Walt Whitman the Great Navigator in September, 1872. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
