Time, Real and Imaginary, an allegory
1772-1834
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.
DayPoems Poem No. 505
<a href="http://www.daypoems.net/poems/505.html">Time, Real and Imaginary, an allegory by Samuel Taylor Coleridge</a>
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