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• Word Bank
• wandered
• pilgrims in a fable
• granitic
• deep stone flues
• silence
• without cease
• raised its dripping mouth
• rimstone pool
• eyes dead white
• sightless as the eggs of spiders
• translucent
• its beating heart
• pulsed in a dull glass bell
• lurched away
• soundlessly into the dark
• This poem gives off the thought that fear of the outside world leads to curiosity. As one is "sightless as the eggs of spiders" and wander "soundlessly into the dark", you can see their interest in discovery without cease. The translucent actions as if it's "pilgrims in a fable" suggests that the pilgrimage is overtaken by a "granitic beast". As the other explains, its beating heart is lurched away and pulsed in a dull glass bell by this fear.