Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, TIME, REAL AND IMAGINARY; AN ALLEGORY, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE


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TIME, REAL AND IMAGINARY; AN ALLEGORY, by                 Poet's Biography
First Line: On the wide level of a mountain's head
Last Line: And knows not whether he be first or last.
Subject(s): Fables; Time; Allegories


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!
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,
And knows not whether he be first or last.





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