Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

by Unknown

Like one that on a lonesome road

Doth walk in fear and dread,

And having once turned round walks on,

And turns no more his head,

Because he knows a frightful fiend

Doth close behind him tread.

The Ancient Mariner. Part vi.

So lonely 't was, that God himself

Scarce seemed there to be.

The Ancient Mariner. Part vii.