Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79. | | | | Wales: Anglesea (Mona) | | East and West | | Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) |
| | | 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 |
| Whitened his face from the sun’s fronting ray. | |
| Eastward the other, from the dying day; | |
| And he with unsunned face did always go.” | |
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| “Seiriol the Bright, Kybi the Dark,” men said. | |
| The Seer from the East was then in light, | 10 |
| The Seer from the West was then in shade. | |
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| Ah! now ’t is changed. In conquering sunshine bright | |
| The man of the bold West now comes arrayed; | |
| He of the mystic East is touched with night. | | | | |
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