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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! / This far outstript 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 passed, / And knows not whether he be first or last.