Made him a companion of the winds of Heaven, travelling

Unpaven streets of cloudy golden snows,

Piercing forlorn mist, cold though it encompass him

Like a dead mind that nothing sees or knows,

Vacant, a cavern fleecy and immaterial,

A soundless vapour that he pulses through,

Suddenly emerging, and swims into the sun again

And steers his path up toward the topless blue;—

Towers in the frosty flame-apparelled mystery

Of brain-intoxicating sharp sapphire