Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 17721834553. Time, Real and Imaginary AN ALLEGORY
ON the wide level of a mountain’s head | |
(I knew not where, but ’twas some faery place), | |
Their pinions, ostrich-like, for sails outspread, | |
Two lovely children run an endless race, | |
A sister and a brother! | 5 |
This far outstripp’d the other; | |
Yet ever runs she with reverted face, | |
And looks and listens for the boy behind: | |
For he, alas! is blind! | |
O’er rough and smooth with even step he pass’d, | 10 |
And knows not whether he be first or last. |