“The grim shape
Towered up between me and the stars, and still,
For so it seemed, with purpose of its own
And measured motion like a living thing,
Strode after me.”

—  William Wordsworth, book The Prelude

Bk. I, l. 381.
The Prelude (1799-1805)

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