Mardi, Volume II

Life or death, weal or woe, the sun stays not his course. On: over battle-field and bower; over tower, and town, he speeds,-peers in at births, and death-beds; lights up cathedral, mosque, and pagan shrine; -laughing over all; -a very Democritus in the sky; and in one brief day sees more than any pilgrim in a century's round.

So, the sun; nearer heaven than we: -with what mind, then, may blessed Oro downward look.