• Light-winged smoke! Icarian bird,
    Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight;
    Lark without song, and messenger of dawn,
    Circling above the hamlets as thy nest;
    Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form
    Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts;
    By night star-veiling, and by day
    Darkening the light and blotting out the sun;
    Go...

  •   LIGHT-WINGED Smoke! Icarian bird,
    Melting thy pinions in thy upward flight;
    Lark without song, and messenger of dawn
    Circling above the hamlets as thy nest;
    Or else, departing dream, and shadowy form
    Of midnight vision, gathering up thy skirts;
      By night star-veiling, and by day
    Darkening the light and blotting out the sun;
    Go...