“Thus, while Elijah's burning wheels prepare,
From Carmel's height, to sweep the fields of air,
The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began,
Dropt on the world — a sacred gift to man.”

—  Thomas Campbell

Part I, lines 41 - 44
Pleasures of Hope (1799)

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