STUDY ON THE STRUCTURE AND CHARACTERS

OF CLOUDS

illianer

Rev. W. CLEMENT LEY

M.A., F. R. Met. Soc.

WITH NUMEROUS COLOURED PLATES, PHOTOGRAPHS,

CHARTS, AND DIAGRAMS

LONDON: EDWARD STANFORD
26 & 27 COCKSPUR STREET, CHARING CROSS, S.W.

1894 ..

GE

Thou on whose stream, ʼmid the steep sky's commotion,
Loose clouds like earth's decaying leaves are shed,
Shook from the tangled boughs of heaven and ocean,

Angels of rain and lightning ! there are spread
On the blue surface of thine airy surge,
Like the bright hair uplifted from the head

Of some fierce Mænad, even from the dim verge
Of the horizon to the zenith's height,
The locks of the approaching storm. Thou dirge

Of the dying year, to which this closing night
Will be the dome of a vast sepulchre,
Vaulted with all thy congregated might

Of vapours, from whose solid atmosphere
Black rain, and fire, and hail, will burst : O hear!

SHELLEY, Ode to the West Wind.