On sill and bough and roof.

What cloudy shapes do fleet

Along the parchèd street;

Clerks, bishops, kings go by—

Tomorrow so shall I.

SPICEWOOD

The spicewood burns along the gray, spent sky,

In moist unchimneyed places, in a wind,

That whips it all before, and all behind,

Into one thick, rude flame, now low, now high.