, behold a  ! The mass 
about the  sun broke up, and drifted away in cloudy 
bergs, as if scattered on the diverging currents of solar radi- 
ance that burst from the gates of the west, and streamed east 
and north and south over the heavens and over the sea. To 
the north these masses built a cloudy bridge across the sky 
from horizon to horizon, and beneath it shone the rosy-sailed 
ships floating stately through their triumphal arch up the 
channel to their home. Other clouds floated stately too in the 
upper sea over our heads, with dense forms, thinning into va- 
porous edges. Some were of a dull, angry red ; some of as ex- 
quisite a primrose hue as ever the flower itself bore on its 
bosom ; and betwixt their edges beamed out the sweetest, purest, 
most melting, most transparent'blue,  the heavenly blue which 
is the symbol of the , as red is of the . I think I 
never saw a blue to satisfy me before. Some of these clouds 
threw wordnetfear of many-shaded purple upon the green sea; and 
from one of the wordnetfear, so dark and so far out upon the - 
ing horizon that it looked like an island, arose, as from a pier, 
a wondrous structure of dim, fairy colors,