’Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore;
And coming events cast their shadows before.
Campbell: Lochiel’s Warning.
Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present.—Shelley: Defence of Poetry.
A similar form of expression occurs in Paul’s Epistle to the Hebrews, x. 1.
The wolfs long howl by Oonalaska’s shore.
Campbell: Pleasures of Hope.
Stolen from a line in an obscure poem called the Sentimental Sailor:—
The screaming eagle’s shriek that echoes wild,