“She faded, like a cloud which had outwept its rain.”
St. X
Adonais (1821)
Context: Lost Angel of a ruined Paradise!
She knew not 'twas her own; as with no stain
She faded, like a cloud which had outwept its rain.
“The hooded clouds, like friars,
Tell their beads in drops of rain.”
Midnight Mass, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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