Quote #42

'God save thee, ancient Mariner! From the fiends, that plague thee thus! - Why look'st thou so?' - With my cross-bow I shot the Albatross.

More from Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  1. 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!
  2. The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew, The furrow followed free: We were the first that ever burst Into that silent sea.
  3. And now there came both mist and snow, And it grew wondrous cold: And ice, mast-high, came floating by, As green as emerald.
  4. As idle as a painted ship Upon a painted ocean.
  5. The bride hath paced into the hall, Red as a rose is she.
  6. Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.
  7. The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, For he heard the loud bassoon.
  8. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea.

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