This poem's speaker poses such questions as “who, if not I, for questing here hath power?” and “I know these slopes; who knows them if not I?” A stanza in this poem that opens by asking after a girl “by the boatman's door” who “umoor'd” a “skiff” is followed by one that describes how “the night / in ever-nearing circle weaves her shade.” After spotting a troop of jovial returning hunters late in this poem, the speaker is delighted to see, “bare on its lonely ridge,” a still-standing, much-prized (*) “signal-tree.” The title character is told “time, not Corydon, hath conquered thee” in this poem, which imagines a “cuckoo's cry” conveying the message “the bloom is gone, and with the bloom go I.” Oxford is described as “that sweet city with her dreaming spires” in, (-5[1])for 10 points, what monody for Arthur Hugh Clough (“cluff”), by Matthew Arnold? ■END■ (10[1])