airy hope

Borne by the airy hope of a draft at the Republican Convention, the hat of New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller fluttered into the presidential ring once more.

I bethink me of the time, When with each airy hope in view, In triumph to this fervid clime I bore a flowret nurs'd in dew!

And what news from the kingdom of subterranean darkness and airy hope?—What says the swart spirit of the mine?