And strives, with dizzy wits, to guess

Whence fell the blow. What if, 'twixt skies

And prostrate earth, he should surprise

The imaged vapor, head to foot,

Surveying, motionless and mute,

Its work, ere, in a whirlwind rapt

It vanish up again?—So hapt

My chance. He stood there. Like the smoke

Pillared o'er Sodom, when day broke,—

I saw him. One magnific pall