Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79.
East and West
By Matthew Arnold (18221888)I
Two springs which close by one another play,
And, “thirteen hundred years agone,” they say,
“Two saints met often where those waters flow.
Whitened his face from the sun’s fronting ray.
Eastward the other, from the dying day;
And he with unsunned face did always go.”
The Seer from the East was then in light,
The Seer from the West was then in shade.
The man of the bold West now comes arrayed;
He of the mystic East is touched with night.