Doth earth contain it? or, since from the sun

Fire reaches us, since in the glimmering stars

And pallid moon, in lightning, and the glance

Of tracking meteors that at nightfall show

How in the air a thousand sightless things

Travel, and ever on their windswift course

Flame when they list and into darkness go,—530

Since in all these a fiery nature dwells,

Is fire an airy essence, a thing of heaven,

That, could we poise it, were an alien power