Tell me, Air-wanderer! in what burning zone

Thou wilt appear, when from the azure vault

Of our high heaven thy majesty shall fade;

Tell me, winged Vapor! where hath been thy home

Through the unchangeable serene of noon?

Whate’er thy garniture, where’er thy course,

Would I could follow thee in thy far flight,

When the south wind of eve is low and soft,

And my thought rises to the mighty source

Of all sublimity! O fleeting cloud,