"Ye flying clouds, what look ye down upon? Tell me, what ye see abroad?" (Mardi, 1849)
"How beautifully those light clouds float along from the east, wafted by the gentle airs that just give music to the leaves over head. Ye far wanderers! are ye messengers from that busy world? If so, pass on...."
(Scenes Beyond the Western Border, Southern Literary Messenger 18 (August 1852): 508; and
Scenes and Adventures in the Army)
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