Like Chaff we drove along.

Merrily did we drop

And a good south wind sprung up behind,

Ne shapes of men ne beasts we ken--

It perchd for vespers nine,

The bright-eyed Marinere.

"Why lookst thou so?"--with my cross bow

The wedding-guest he beat his breast,

And thus spake on that ancyent man,

Till over the mast at noon--

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"The Guests are met, the Feast is set,--

Higher and higher every day,

As green as Emerauld.

He cannot chuse but hear:

The Albatross did follow;

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IN SEVEN PARTS.

Like noises of a swound.

The bright-eyed Marinere.

The Marinere hath his will.

Whiles all the night thro fog-smoke white

It crackd and growld, and roard and howld--

"Mayst hear the merry din.--

Out of the Sea came he:

"Now wherefore stoppest me?

A Wind and Tempest strong!

And listens like a three years child;

And he shone bright, and on the right

The Marineres gave it biscuit-worms,

"And I am next of kin;

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Below the Kirk, below the Hill,

And thus spake on that ancyent Man,

The Ice did split with a Thunder-?t;

But still he holds the wedding-guest--

Yet he cannot chuse but hear:

For he heard the loud bassoon.

"Marinere! come with me."

Nodding their heads before her goes

He holds him with his skinny hand,

It is an ancyent Marinere,

Quoth he, there was a Ship--

"By thy long grey beard and thy glittering eye

Red as a rose is she;

Thorough the Fog it came;

The Ice was all between.

At length did cross an Albatross,

Listen, Stranger! Mist and Snow,

The Ice was here, the Ice was there,

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Came to the Marineres hollo!

Below the Light-house top.

I shot the Albatross.

Listen, Stranger! Storm and Wind,

Glimmerd the white moon-shine.

The Ship was cheerd, the Harbour cleard--

In mist or cloud on mast or shroud

The merry Minstralsy.

"From the ?ends that plague thee thus--

And Ice mast-high came ?oating by

Went down into the Sea.

The Sun came up upon the left,

And he stoppeth one of three:

The Ice was all around:

He holds him with his glittering eye--

"God save thee, ancyent Marinerereaｄ•9９csw•coｍ!

"Or my Staff shall make thee skip."

And it grew wondrous cauld:

"Now get thee hence, thou grey-beard Loon!

There was a Ship, quoth he--

And every day for food or play

"Nay, if thoust got a laughsome tale,

And round and round it ?ew:

The wedding-guest sate on a stone,

We haild it in Gods name.

The wedding-guest here beat his breast,

Did send a dismal sheen;

The Helmsman steerd us thro.

ARGUMENT.

And an it were a Christian Soul,

The wedding guest stood still

For days and weeks it playd us freaks--