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...there, with fingers interwoven, both hands Pressed closely palm to palm, and to his mouth Uplifted, he, as through an instrument, Blew mimic hootings...they would shout Across the watery vale, and shout agam, Responsive to his call, with quivering peals, And long halloos and screams, and echoes loud....

...both hands Pressed closely palm to palm and to his mouth Uplifted, he, as through an instrument, Biew mimic hootings to the silent owls, That they might...answer him. And they would shout Across the watery valo, and shout again, Responsive to his call, with quivering peals, And long halloos and screams,...

...there, with fingers interwoven, both hands Pressed closely palm to palm and to his mouth Uplifted, he, as through an instrument, Blew mimic hootings to the silent owls, That they might answer him.—And they would shout Across the watery vale, and shout again, Responsive to his call,—with...

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...there, with fingers interwoven, both hands Press'd closely palm to palm, and to his mouth Uplifted, he, as through an instrument, Blew mimic hootings...loud, Redoubled and redoubled, — concourse wild Of jocund din; and, when a lengthen'd pause Of silence came and baffled his best skill, Then sometimes,...

...and writing by their very contiguity. The intervocative exchange begins, significantly, with the Boy: he, as through an instrument, Blew mimic hootings...Responsive to his call, with quivering peals, And long hallóos and screams, and echoes loud, Redoubled and redoubled, concourse wild Of jocund din... (5.372-9)...

...first attempts a mimetic relationship to nature, engaging in a process of near-mechanical reproduction: he as through an instrument, Blew mimic hootings to the silent owls, That they might answer him. (5.397-99) Of course it is in the subversion of that mimetic relationship that a precisely nonmimetic...