A Bed of Flame + 

I saw one day on the horizon grey, + 

As with my load I wandered near the sea, + 

A whiff of smoke embrace the sleeping sun; + 

And just as their enchantment had begun, + 

A lonely cloud that roved above the lea + 

Passed by their couch and hid them from the day. + 

I saw this and my soul, long silent, cried: + 

“Would that I were the whiff of smoke + 

Now sleeping with the sun! + 

In beds of flame, how often was I tried⁠— + 

How often have I ’neath the stroke + 

Of God or Satan shone!” + 