| Show cloud painting clouds form one of the most studies in nature more gorgeous than the flowers grander than the zephyrs mightier than the rivers gentler than the zephyrs they change from gloom glor from lead unto gold as silently as the passing of a soul no eider don was ever so light no fleece baseer so fair granite and grim to day tynan and mother of pearl tomorrow in the moin ng a breath that a seraph in full sorg might ha e breathed at night a lank die worlds red roses might hiie grown in pleasure clouds clouds for rain clouds of a hundred guns this one might have issued from the chimney of the old homestead at a winter sunrise that is as grand as the pillar of flame that went before ahe host in the wilderness mountains covered with snow crags dipping chryso lites plains bowed sowed with gold tales fult of night breath of a sparrow song of the stars waves of the sea walls of ali baster marble of carrara pennons of princes banners for armies mantles for tempests and robes for the dead by the fingers of wind they blossom in the sunshine petals of the flow er cup of en e built our castles of the granite of cloud ind w e stand on the ledges that grow under the sandals of day as it steps from cliff unto cliff into hea en pal ettes wl ereon paints the gone morning from memory the isible song of the day that was wa s dead hipa of the sea of huaien quarries out of which we hew paradise are ahey all hen we thina that the bornn g cloud is like life wo are ad but when we seo it waiting in ro al array in gods w estern gate 0 ire glad again for we ahn L how kau ful w e may be a d ing |
