The most famous and the noblest of eighteenth-century Allegories. With the 'bridge' we may compare Tennyson's Gareth and Lynette, 11. 903, 1098; with the 'cloud' which veils the eternity from which men come no less than the eternity to which they pass, Wordsworth's Ode on Intimations of Immortality.

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