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The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
The cloud never comes from the quarter of the horizon from which we watch for it.
 Who covereth thyself with light as a garment: who stretchest out 
the heavens like a curtain:
 Who layeth read more 
 Who covereth thyself with light as a garment: who stretchest out 
the heavens like a curtain:
 Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: who maketh 
the clouds his chariot: who walketh upon the wings of the wind:
  Who maketh his angels spirits: his ministers a flaming fire:
   Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be 
removed for ever. 
 Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a 
Part, or a Wolf, or a read more 
 Have you ever, looking up, seen a cloud like to a Centaur, a 
Part, or a Wolf, or a Bull? 
 Were I a cloud I'd gather
 My skirts up in the air,
  And fly well know whither,
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 Were I a cloud I'd gather
 My skirts up in the air,
  And fly well know whither,
   And rest I well know where. 
 I saw two clouds at morning
 Tinged by the rising sun,
  And in the dawn they floated read more 
 I saw two clouds at morning
 Tinged by the rising sun,
  And in the dawn they floated on
   And mingled into one. 
 Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it
 Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute.  
 Choose a firm cloud before it fall, and in it
 Catch, ere she change, the Cynthia of this minute. 
 Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?
 By th' mass and 'tis, like a read more 
 Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in shape of a camel?
 By th' mass and 'tis, like a camel indeed.
  Methinks it is like a weasel.
   It is backed like a weasel.
    Or like a whale.
     Very like a whale. 
 By unseen hand uplifted in the light
 Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud
  Floats, with its white apparel read more 
 By unseen hand uplifted in the light
 Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud
  Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad,
   And wafted up to heaven. 
 When clouds appear like rocks and towers,
 The earth's refreshed by frequent showers.  
 When clouds appear like rocks and towers,
 The earth's refreshed by frequent showers.