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Rh When thou quickly followest their steps, Pursuing them like a hunter in the sky, Thou climbing the lofty hills, They descending on barren mountains ? "

who does not in his thought accompany the stars to their "cavernous home," "descending" with them "on barren mountains?"

Nevertheless, even by night the sky is blue and not black, for we see through the shadow of the earth into the distant atmosphere of day, where the sunbeams are revelling.