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 And they were canopied by the blue sky,
 So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful,
  That God alone read more 
 And they were canopied by the blue sky,
 So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful,
  That God alone was to be seen in Heaven. 
A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only read more
 A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.
 
 Of evening tinct,
 The purple-streaming Amethyst is thine.  
 Of evening tinct,
 The purple-streaming Amethyst is thine. 
 I go back to those who say: what if the heavens fall?
 [Lat., Redeo ad illes qui aiunt: quid read more 
 I go back to those who say: what if the heavens fall?
 [Lat., Redeo ad illes qui aiunt: quid si coelum ruat?] 
 Never till then so many thunderbolts from cloudless skies. (Bolt 
from the blue.)
 [Lat., Non alias caelo ceciderunt read more 
 Never till then so many thunderbolts from cloudless skies. (Bolt 
from the blue.)
 [Lat., Non alias caelo ceciderunt plura sereno.] 
 From hyperborean skies
 Embodied dark, what clouds of vandals rise.  
 From hyperborean skies
 Embodied dark, what clouds of vandals rise. 
 Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never 
the same for two months together; almost human in its passions, 
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 Sometimes gentle, sometimes capricious, sometimes awful, never 
the same for two months together; almost human in its passions, 
almost spiritual in its tenderness, almost Divine in its 
infinity. 
 Arrestment, sudden really as a bolt out of the blue has hit 
strange victims.  
 Arrestment, sudden really as a bolt out of the blue has hit 
strange victims.