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)

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

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