skiey

sky•ey

(ˈskaɪ i)

adj.
1. of or from the sky.
2. in the sky; lofty.
3. skylike; sky-blue.
[1595–1605]
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He calls his childhood into retrospection: "If even / I were as in my boyhood, and could be / The comrade of thy wanderings over Heaven, / As then when to outstrip thy skiey speed / Scarce seemed a vision; I would never have striven.
A clue to this question is provided later in the poem when the poet, saying that in his boyhood "to outstrip thy skiey speed / Scarce seemed a vision" (50-51), indicates that he has always been put in rivalry with the wind.