Knightly Legends of Wales; or, The Boy's Mabinogion / Being the Earliest Welsh Tales of King Arthur in the Famous Red Book of Hergest

by Sidney Lanier

When it strikes on coasts.

It is in the field, it is in the wood,

Without hand and without foot,

Without signs of old age,

Though it be coeval

With the five ages or periods;

And older still,

Though they be numberless years.

It is also so wide;

As the surface of the earth;