Goad19 Jan 2004
Hmm, why does "thing" bug you?
The pome is intended as a metaphor about the interaction between big-R Romantic & RatMat, or Science. Note it's ambivalent & doesn't claim either mode is intrinsically better than the other. So it's a thing to the Romantic narrator, he hasn't the nomenclature the collector likely has.
You're right about 'till though. Silly affectation. I will change it.