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ether (n.)

ether (v.)

ether (adv.)

ether (adj.)

Of all that is most beauteous, imaged there

In happier beauty; more pellucid streams,

An ampler ether, a diviner air,

And fields invested with purpureal gleams.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Laodamia.

  "The earth loveth the shower," and "the holy ether knoweth what love is." The Universe, too, loves to create whatsoever is destined to be made.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121-180 a d): Meditations. x. 21.

E'en like the passage of an angel's tear

That falls through the clear ether silently.

John Keats (1795-1821): To One who has been long in City pent.