| Matthew Arnold (1822–88). The Poems of Matthew Arnold, 1840–1867. 1909. | | | | New Poems, 1867 | | East and West |
| | [First published 1867.]
IN the bare midst of Anglesey they show | |
| Two springs which close by one another play, | |
| And, ‘Thirteen hundred years agone,’ they say, | |
| ‘Two saints met often where those waters flow. | |
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| ‘One came from Penmon, westward, and a glow | 5 |
| ‘Whiten’d his face from the sun’s fronting ray. | |
| ‘Eastward the other, from the dying day; | |
| ‘And he with unsunn’d face did always go.’ | |
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| Seiriol the Bright, Kybi the Dark, men said. | |
| The Seër from the East was then in light, | 10 |
| The Seër from the West was then in shade. | |
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| Ah! now ’tis changed. In conquering sunshine bright | |
| The man of the bold West now comes array’d; | |
| He of the mystic East is touch’d with night. | | | | |
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