Quote #37

The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared, Merrily did we drop Below the kirk, below the hill, Below the light-house top.

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  1. He holds him with his glittering eye - The Wedding-Guest stood still, And listens like a three years child: The Mariner hath his will.
  2. The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, For he heard the loud bassoon.
  3. The guests are met, the feast is set: May'st hear the merry din.
  4. The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she.
  5. It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long gray beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?'
  6. And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold: And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald.
  7. If a man could pass through Paradise in a dream, and have a flower presented to him as a pledge that his soul had really been there, and if…
  8. The ice was here, the ice was there, The ice was all around: It cracked and growled, and roared and howled, Like noises in a swound!

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