Matthew Arnold (1822–88). The Poems of Matthew Arnold, 1840–1867. 1909.
New Poems, 1867East and West
[First published 1867.]
I
Two springs which close by one another play,
And, ‘Thirteen hundred years agone,’ they say,
‘Two saints met often where those waters flow.
‘Whiten’d his face from the sun’s fronting ray.
‘Eastward the other, from the dying day;
‘And he with unsunn’d face did always go.’
The Seër from the East was then in light,
The Seër from the West was then in shade.
The man of the bold West now comes array’d;
He of the mystic East is touch’d with night.