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 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.] 
The planets in their station list'ning stood.
The planets in their station list'ning stood.
Green calm below, blue quietness above.
Green calm below, blue quietness above.
 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It 
will be fair weather: for the read more 
 He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It 
will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
 And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky 
is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of 
the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times? 
 The moon has set
 In a bank of jet
  That fringes the Western sky,
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 The moon has set
 In a bank of jet
  That fringes the Western sky,
   The pleiads seven
    Have sunk from heaven
     And the midnight hurries by;
      My hopes are flown
       And, alas! alone
        On my weary couch I lie. 
 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. 
 The mountain at a given distance
 In amber lies;
  Approached, the amber flits a little,--
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 The mountain at a given distance
 In amber lies;
  Approached, the amber flits a little,--
   And that's the skies! 
 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. 
 "Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue,"
 As some one somewhere sings about the sky.  
 "Darkly, deeply, beautifully blue,"
 As some one somewhere sings about the sky.