The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley (ed. Hutchinson, 1914)/'O that a Chariot of Cloud were mine'

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'O THAT A CHARIOT OF CLOUD WERE MINE'

[Published by Dr. Garnett, Relics of Shelley, 1862.]

O that a chariot of cloud were mine!
Of cloud which the wild tempest weaves in air,
When the moon over the ocean's line
Is spreading the locks of her bright gray hair.
O that a chariot of cloud were mine! 5
I would sail on the waves of the billowy wind
To the mountain peak and the rocky lake,
And the . . .