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- cFrom The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250 - 1918
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Part I
- It is an ancient Mariner,
- And he stoppeth one three.
- 'By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,
- Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?
- (An ancient Mariner meeteth 3 gallants
- bidden to a wedding feast, and detaineth
- one.)
- The Bridegroom's doors are open'd wide,
- And I am next of kin;
- The guests are met, the feast is set:
- May'st hear the merry din.'
- He holds him with his skinny hand,
- 'There was a ship,' quoth he.
- 'Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!'
- Eftsoons his hand dropt he.
- He holds him with his glittering eye-
- The Wedding-guest stood still,
- And listens like a three years' child:
- The Mariner hath his will.
- (The Wedding-Guest is spell-bound by
- the eye of the old seafaring man and
- constrained to hear his tale)
- The Wedding-Guest sat on a stope:
- He cannot choose but hear;
- And thus spake on that ancient man,
- The bright-eyed Mariner.
- 'The ship was cheer'd, the harbour clear'd,
- Merrily did we drop
- Below the kirt, below the hill,
- Below the lighthouse top.
- The Sun came up upon the left
- Out of the sea came he!
- And he shone bright, and on the right
- Went down into the sea.
- (The Mariner tells how the ship sailed south
- with a good wind and fair weather, till it
- reached the Line)
- Higher and higher every day,
- Till over the mast at noon----'
- The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast,
- For he heard the loud bassoon.
- The bride hath paced into the hall,
- Red as a rose is she;
- Nodding their heads before her goes
- The merry minstrelsy.
- (The Wedding-Guest heareth the bridal
- music; but the Mariner continueth his tale)
- The Wedding-Guest he beat his breast,
- Yet he cannot choose but hear;
- And thus spake on that ancient man,
- The bright-eyed Mariner.
- 'And now the Storm-blast came, and he
- Was tyrannous and strong:
- He struck with his o'ertaking wings,
- And chased us south along.
- (The ship driven by a storm towards the
- South Pole)
- With sloping mast and dipping
- prow. As who pursued with yell and blow
- Still treads the shadow of his foe,
- And forward bends his head,
- The ship drove fast, loud roar'd the blast,
- And southward aye we fled.
- And now there came both mist and snow,
- And it grew wondeous cold:
- And ice, mast-high, came floating by,
- As green as emerald.
- And through the drifts the snowy clifs
- Did send a dismal sheen:
- Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken---
- The ice was all between.
- (The land of ice, and of fearful sounds,
- where no living thing was to be seen.)
- The ice was here, the ice was there,
- The ice was all around:
- It crack'd and growl'd, and roar'd and howl'd,
- Like noises in a swound!
- At length did cross an Albatross,
- Through the fog it came;
- As if it had been a Christian soul,
- We hail'd it in God's name.
- (Till a great sea-bird, called the Albatross,
- came through the snow-fog, and was
- received with joy and hospitality.)
- It ate the food it ne'er had eat,
- And round and round it flew.
- The ice did spil with a thunder-fit;
- The helmsman steer'd us through!
- And a good south wing sprng up behind;
- The Albatross did follow,
- And every day, for food or play,
- Came to the mariners' hollo!
- (And lo! the Albatross a bird of god omen,
- and followeth the ship as it returned
- northward through the fog and floating ice)
- In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,
- It perch'd for vespers nine;
- While all the night, through fog-smoke white,
- Glimmer'd the white moonshine.'
- 'God save thee, ancient Mariner,
- From the fiends, that plague thee thus!--
- Why look'st thou so?'-'With my crossbow
- I shot the Albatross.
- (The ancient Mariner inhospitably killeth
- the pious bird of good omen)
- Part II
- 'The Sun now rose upon the right:
- Out of the sea came he,
- Still hid in mist, and on the left
- Went down into the sea.
- And the good south wind still blew behind,
- But no sweet bird did follow,
- Nor any day for food or play
- Came to the mariners' hollo!
- And I had done a hellish thing,
- And it would work 'em woe:
- For all averr'd I had kill'd the bird
- That made the breeze to blow.
- Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay,
- That made the breeze to blow!
- (His shipmates cry out against the ancient
- Mariner for killing the bird of good luck.)
- Nor dim nor red, like God's own head,
- The glorious Sun uprist:
- Then all averr'd I had kill'd the bird
- That brought the fog and mist.
- 'Twas right, said they, such bird to slay,
- That bring the fog and mist.
- (But when the fog cleared off, they justify
- the same, and thus make themselves accomplices
- in the crime.)
- The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
- The furrow follow'd free;
- We were the first that ever burst
- Into that silent sea.
- (The fair breeze continues; the ship enters
- the Pacific Ocean, and sails northward, even
- till it reaches the Line)
- Down drop the breeze, the sail dropt down,
- 'Twas sad as sad could be;
- And we did speak only to break
- The silence of the sea!
- (The ship, hath been suddenly becalmed.)
- All in a hot and copper sky,
- The bloody Sun, at noon,
- Right up above the mast did stand,
- No bigger than the Moon.
- Day after day, day after day,
- We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
- As idle as a painted ship
- Upon a painted ocean.
- Water, water, everywhere,
- And all the boards did shrink;
- Water, water, everywhere
- Nor any drop to drink.
- (And the Albatross begins to be avenged.)
- The very deep did rot: O Christ!
- That ever this should be!
- Yea, slimy thing did crawl with legs
- Upon the slimy sea.
- About, about, in reel and rout
- The death-fires dance at night;
- The water, like a witch's oils,
- Burnt green, and blue, and white.
- And some in dreams assured were
- Of the Spirit that plagued us so;
- Nine fathom deep he had follow'd us
- From the land of mist and snow.
- (A Spirit had follwed them one of the invisible
- inhabitants of this planet, neither departed
- souls nor angels; concerning whom the learned
- Jew, Josephus, and the platonic Constinopolitan;
- Micheal Psellus, may be consulted. They are
- very numerous, and there is no climate or
- element without one or more.)
- And every tongue, through utter drought,
- Was wither'd at the root;
- We could not speak, no more than if
- We had been choked with soot.
- Ah! well a-day! what evil looks
- Had I from old and young!
- Instead of the cross, the Albatross
- About my neck was hung.
- (The shipmates in their sore distress, would
- fain throw the whole guilt on the ancient
- Mariner in sign whereof they hang the dead
- sea-bird round his neck.)
- Part III
- 'There passes a weary time. Each throat
- Was parch'd, and glazed each eye.
- A weary time! a weary time!
- How glazed each weary eye!
- When, looking westward, I beheld
- A something in the sky.
- (The ancient Mariner beholdeth a sign
- in the element afar off.)
- At first it seem'd a little speck,
- And then it seem'd a mist;
- It moved and moved, and took at last
- A certain shape, I wist.
- A speck, a mist, I wist!
- And still it near'd and near'd:
- As if it dodged a water-sprite,
- It plunged, and tack'd and veer'd.
- With throats unslaked, with black lips baked,
- We could nor laugh nor wail;
- Through utter drought all dumb we stood!
- I bit my arm, I suck'd the blood,
- And cried, A sail! a sail!
- (At its nearer approach it seemeth him to be
- a ship and at a dear ransom he freeth his
- speech from the bonds of thirst.)
- With throats unslaked, with black lips backed,
- Agape they heard me call:
- Grammercy! they for joy did grin,
- And all at once their breath drew in,
- As they were drinking all.
- (A flash of joy;)
- See! see! (I cried) she tack no more!
- Hither to work us weal--
- Without a breeze, without a tide,
- She steadies with upright keel!
- ( And horror follows. For can it be a ship
- that comes onward without wind or tide?)
- The western wave was all aflame,
- The day was wellnigh done!
- Almost upon the western wave
- Rested the broad, bright Sun;
- When that strange shape drove suddenly
- Betwixt us and the Sun.
- And straight the Sun was fleck'd with bars
- (Heaven's Mother send us grace!),
- As if through a dungeon-grate he peer'd
- With broad and burning face.
- (It seemeth him but the skeleton of a ship.)
- Alas! (thought I, and my heart beat loud)
- How fast she nears and nears!
- Are those her sails that glance in the Sun,
- Like rearless gossameres?
- Are those her ribs though which the Sun
- Did peer, as though a gate?
- And is that Woman all her crew
- Is that a Death? and are there two?
- Is death that Woman's mate?
- (And its ribs are seen as bars on the face of
- the setting Sun. The Spectre-Woman and her
- Death-mate and no other on board the
- skeleton ship. Like vessel, like crew!)
- Her lips were red, her looks were free,
- Her locks were yellow as gold:
- Her skin was as white as leprosy,
- The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she,
- Who thicks man's blood with cold.
- The naked hulk alongside came,
- And the twain were casting dice;
- "The game is done! I've won! I've won!"
- Quoth she, and whistles thrice.
- (Death and Life-in-Deah have diced for
- the ship's crew and she (the latter) winneth
- the ancient Mariner.)
- The Sun's rim dips; the stars rush out:
- At one stride comes the dark;
- With far-heard whisper, o'er the sea,
- Off shot the spectre-bark.
- (No twilight within the courts of the Sun)
- We listen'd and look'd sideways up!
- Fear at my heart, as at a cup,
- My life-blood seem'd to sip!
- The stars were dim, and thick the night,
- The steersman's face by his lamp gleam'd white;
- From the sails the dew did drip---
- Till climb above the eastern bar
- The horned Moon, with one bright star
- Within the nether tip.
- (At the rising of the Moon)
- One after one, by the star-dogg'd Moon,
- Too quick for groan or sigh,
- Each turn'd his face with a ghastly pang,
- And cursed me with his eye.
- (One after another,)
- Four times fifty living men
- (And I heard nor sigh nor groan),
- With heavy thump, a lifeless lump,
- They dropp'd down one by one.
- (His shipmates drop down dead.)
- The souls did from their bodied fly--
- They fled to bliss or woe!
- And every soul, it pass'd me by
- Like the whizz of my crossbow!'
- (But Life-in-Death begind her work on the
- ancient Mariner.)
- Part IV
- 'I fear thee, ancient Mariner!
- I fear thy skinny hand!
- And thou art long, and lank, and brown,
- As is the ribb'd sea-sand.
- (The Wedding-guest feareth that a spirit is
- talking to him)
- I fear thee and thy glittering eye,
- And thy skinny hand so brown.'-
- 'Fear not, fear not, thou Wedding-Guest!
- This body dropt not down.
- (But the ancient Mariner assureth him of his
- bodily life, and proceedeth to relate his
- horrible penance.)
- Alone, alone, all, all alone
- Alone on a wide, wide sea!
- And never a saint took pity on
- My soul in agony.
- The many men, so beautiful!
- And thy all dead did lie:
- And thousand thousand slimy things
- Lived on; and so did I.
- (He despiseth the creature of the calm)
- I look'd upon the rotting sea,
- And drew my eyes away;
- I look'd upon the rotting deck,
- And there the dead men lay.
- (And envieth that they should live and so
- many lie dead.)
- I look'd to heaven, and tried to pray;
- #But nor ever a prayer had gusht,
- A wicked whisper came, and made
- My hert as dry as dust.
- I closed my lids, and kept them close,
- And the balls like pulses beat;
- But the sky and the sea, and sea and sky,
- Lay like a load on my weary eye,
- And the dead were at my feet.
- The cold sweat melter from their limbs,
- Nor rot nor reek did they:
- The look with which they look'd on me
- Had never pass'd away.
- (But the curse liveth for him in the eye
- of the dead men.)
- An orphan's curse would drag to hell
- A spirit from on high;
- But oh! more horrible than that
- Is the curse in a dead man's eye!
- Seven days, seven nights, I saw that curse,
- And yet I could not die.
- The moving Moon went up the sky,
- And nowhere did abide;
- Softly she was going up,
- And a star or two beside---
- (In his loneliness and fixedness he yeardeth
- towards the journeying Moon, and the stars
- that still sojourn, yet still move onward;
- and everywhere the blue sky belongs to
- them, and is their appointed rest and their
- native country and their own natual homes,
- which they enter inannounced, as lords that
- are certainly expected, and yet there is a
- silent joy at their arrival.)
- Her beams bemock'd the sultry main,
- Like April hoar-frost spread;
- But where the ship's huge shadow lay,
- The charmed water burnt alway
- A still and awful red
- Beyond the shadow of the ship,
- I watch'd the water-snakes:
- They moved in tracks of shining white,
- And when they read'd, the elfish light
- Fell off in hoary flakes.
- (By the light of the Moon he beholdeth God's
- creatures of the great calm.)
- Within the shadow of the ship,
- I watch'd their rich attire!
- Blue, glossy green, and velvet black,
- They coil'd and swam; and every track
- Was a flash of golden fire.
- O happy living things! no tongue
- Their beauty might declare:
- A spring of love gush'd from my heart,
- And I bless'd them unaware:
- Sure my kind saint took pity on me,
- And I bless'd them unaware.
- (Their beauty and their happiness. He
- blessed them in his heart.)
- The selfsame moment I could pray;
- And from my neck so free
- The Albatross fell off, and sank
- Like lead into the sea.
- (The spell begins to break.)
- Part V
- 'O sleep! it is a gentle thing,
- Beloved from pole to pole!
- To Mary Queen the praise be given!
- She sent the gentle sleep from Heaven,
- That slid into my soul.
- The silly buckets on the deck,
- That had so long remain'd,
- I dreamt that they were fill'd with dew;
- And when I woke, it rain'd.
- (By grace of the holly Mother, the ancient
- Mariner is refreshed with rain.)
- My lips were wet, my throat was cold.
- My garments all were dank;
- Sure I had drunken in my dreams,
- And still my body drank.
- I moved, and could not feel my limbs:
- I was so light - almost
- I thought that I had died in sleep,
- And was a blessed ghost.
- And soon I heard a roarring wind:
- It did not come near;
- But with its sound it shook the sails,
- That were so thin and sere.
- (He heareth sounds and seeth strange sights
- and commotions in the sky and the element.)
- The upper air burst into life;
- And a hundred fire-flags sheen;
- To and fro they were hurried about!
- And to and fro, and in and out,
- The wan stars danced between.
- And the coming wind did roar moore loud,
- And the sails did sigh like sedge;
- And the rain pour'd down from one black cloud;
- The Moon was at its edge.
- The thick black cloud as cleft, and still
- The Moon was at its side;
- Like water shot from some high crag,
- The lightning fell with never a jag,
- A river steep and wide.
- The loud wind never reach'd the ship,
- Yet now the ship moved on!
- Beneath the lighning and the Moob
- The dead men gave a groan.
- (The bodies of the ship's crew are inspired,
- and the ship moves on;)
- They groan'd, they stirr'd, they all uprose,
- Nor spake, nor moved their eyes;
- It had been strange, even in a dream,
- To have seen those dead men rise.
- The helmsman steer'd, the ship moved on;
- Yet never a breeze up-blew;
- The mariners all 'gan work the ropes,
- Where they were wont to do;
- They raised their limbs like lifelesss tools
- We were a ghastly crew.
- The body of my brother's son
- Stood by me, knee to knee:
- The body and I pull'd at one rope,
- But he said naught to me.'
- "I fear thee, ancient Mariner!"
- "Be calm, thou Wedding-Guest:
- 'Twas not those souls that fled in pain,
- Which to their corpses came again,
- But a troop of spirits blest:
- (But not by the souls of the men, nor be
- demons of earth or middle air, but by a
- blessed troop of angelic spirits, send
- down by the invocation of the guardian
- saint.)
- For when it dawn'd -- they dropp'd their arms,
- And cluster'd round the mast;
- Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths,
- And from their bodies pass'd
- Around, around, flew each sweet sound,
- Then dated to the Sun;
- Slowly the sounds came back again,
- Now mix'd, now one by one.
- Sometimes a-dropping from the sky
- I heard the skylark sing;
- Sometimes all little birds that are,
- How they seem'd to fill the sea and air
- With their sweet jargoning!
- And now 'twas like all instruments,
- Now like a lonely flute;
- And now it is an angel's song,
- That makes the Heavens be mute.
- It ceased; yet still the sails made on
- A pleasant noise till noon,
- A noise like of a hidden brook
- In the leafy month of June,
- That to the sleeping woods all night
- Singeth a quite tune.
- Till noon we quietly sail'd on,
- Yet never a breeze did breathe:
- Slowly and smoothly went the ship,
- Moved onward from beneath.
- Under the keel nine fathom deep,
- From the land of mist and snow,
- The Spirit slid: and it was he
- That made the ship to go.
- The sails at noon left off their tune,
- And the ship stood still also.
- (The lonesome Spirit from the South Pole
- carries on the ship as far as the Line, in
- obedience to the angelic troop, but still
- requireth vengeance.)
- The Sun, right up above the mast,
- Had fix'd her to the ocean:
- But in a minute she 'gan stir,
- With a short uneasy motion---
- Backwards and forwards half her length
- With a short uneasy motion.
- Then like a pawing horse let go,
- She made a sudden bound:
- If flung the blood into my head,
- And I fell down in a swound.
- How long in the same fit I lay,
- I have not to eclare;
- But ere my living life return'd
- I heard, and in my soul discern'd
- Two voices in the air.
- (The Polar Spirit's fellow demonds, the
- invisible inhabitants of the element, take
- part in his wrong; and two of them relate,
- one to the other, that penance log and heavy
- for the ancient Mariner hath been accorded
- to the Polar Spirit, who returned southward.)
- "Is it he?" quoth one, "is this the man?
- By Him who died on cross,
- With his cruel bow he laid full low
- The harmless albatross.
- The Spirit who bideth by himself
- In the land of mist and snow,
- He loved the bird that loved the man
- Who shot him with his bow."
- The other was a softer voice,
- As soft as honey-dew:
- quoth he, "The man hath penance done,
- And penance more will do."
- Part VI
- First Voice:
- "But tell me, tell me ! speak again,
- Thy soft response renewing -
- What makes that ship drive on so fast?
- What is the Ocean doing?"
- Second Voice:
- "Still as a slave before his lord,
- The Ocean hath no blast;
- His great bright eye most silently
- Up to the Moon is cast-
- If he may know which way to go;
- For she guides him smooth or grim.
- See, brother, see! how graciously
- She looketh down on him."
- First Voice:
- "But why drives on that ship so fast,
- Without or wave or wind?"
- (The Mariner hath been cast into a trance/
- for the angelic power causeth the vessel to
- drive northward faster than human life can
- endure.)
- Second Voice:
- "The air is cut away before,
- And closes from behind.
- Fly, brother, fly! more high, more high!
- Or we shall be belated:
- For slow ans slow that ship will go,
- When the Mariner's trance is abated."
- I woke, and we were sailing on
- As in a gentle weather:
- 'Twas night, calm night, the Moon was high;
- The dead men stood together.
- (The supernatural motion is retarded; the
- Mariner awakes, and his penance begins
- anew.)
- All stool together on the deck,
- For a charnel-dungeon fitter:
- All fix'd on me their stony eyes,
- That in the Moon did glitter.
- The pang, the curse, with which they died,
- Had never pass'd away:
- I could not draw my eyes from theirs,
- Nor turn them up to pray.
- And now this spell was snapt: once more
- I viewed the ocean green,
- And look'd far forth, yet little saw
- Of what had else been seen-
- (The curse is finally expiated.)
- Like one that on a lonesome road
- Doth walk in fear and dread,
- And having once turn'd round, walks on,
- and turns no more his head;
- Because he knows frightful fiend
- Doth close behind him tread.
- But soon there breathed a wind on me,
- Nor sound nor motion made:
- Its path was not upon the sea,
- In ripple or in shade.
- It raised my hair, it fann'd my cheek
- Like a meadow-gale of spring -
- It mingled strangely with my fears,
- Yet if felt like a welcoming.
- Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship,
- Yet she sail'd softly too:
- Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze -
- On me alone it blew.
- O dream of joy! is it indeed
- The lighthouse top I see?
- Is this the hill? is this the kirk?
- Is this mine own countree?
- (And the ancient Mariner beholdeth his
- native country.)
- We drifted o'er
- The harbour-bar,
- And I with sobs did pray -
- O let me be awake, my God!
- Or let me sleep away.
- The harbour-bay was clear as glass,
- So smoothly it was strewn!
- And on the bay the moonlight lay,
- And the shadow of the Moon.
- The rock shone bright, the kirk no less
- That stands above the rock:
- The moonlight steep'd in silentness
- The steady weathercock.
- And the bay was white with silent light
- Till rising from the same,
- Full many shapes, that shadow were,
- In crimson colurs came.
- (The angelic spirits leave the dead bodies.)
- A little distance from the prow
- Those crimson shadows were:
- I turn'd my eyes upon the deck -
- O Christ! what saw I there!
- (And appear in their own forms of light.)
- Each corpse lay flat, lifeless and flat,
- And, by the holy rood!
- A man all light, a seraph-man,
- On every corpse there stood.
- This seraph-band, each waved his hand:
- It was a heavenly sight!
- They stood as signals to the land,
- Each one a lovely light;
- This seraph-band, each waved his hand,
- No voice did they impart -
- No voice; but O, the silence sank
- Like music on my heart.
- But soon I heard the dash of oars,
- I heard the Pilot's cheer;
- My head was turn'd perforce away
- And I saw a boat appear.
- The Pilot and the Pilot's boy,
- I heard them coming fast:
- Dear Lord in heaven! it was a joy
- The dead men could not blast.
- I saw a third - I heard his voice:
- It is the Hermit good!
- He singeth loud his godly hymns
- That he makes in the wood.
- He'll shrieve my soul, he'll wash away
- The Albatross's blood.
- Part VII
- 'This hermit good lives in that wood
- Which slope down to the sea.
- How loudly his sweet voice he rears!
- He loves to talk with marineres
- That come from a far countriee.
- (The Hermit of the Wood.)
- He kneels at morn, and noon, and eve -
- He hath a cushion plump.
- It is the moss that wholly hides
- The rotte old oak-stump.
- The skiff-boat near'd: I heard them talk,
- "Why, this is strange, I trow!
- Where are those lights so many and fair,
- That signal made but now?"
- "Strange, by my faith!" the Hermit said -
- "And they answer'd not our cheer!
- The planks look wrap'd! and see those sails
- How thin they are and sere!
- I never saw aught like them,
- Unless perchance it were
- (Approacheth the ship with wonder.)
- Brown skeletons of leaves that lag
- My forest-brook along;
- When the ivy-tod is heavy with snow,
- And eats the owlet whoops to the wolf below,
- That eats the she-wolf's young."
- "Dear Lord! it hath a fiendish look -
- (The Pilot made reply)
- I am a-fear'd." - "Push on, push on!"
- Said the Hermit cheerily.
- The boat came closer to the ship,
- But I nor spake nor stirr'd;
- The boat came close beneath the ship,
- And straight a sound was heard.
- Under the water it rumbled on
- Still louder and more dread:
- It reach'd the ship, it split bay;
- The ship went down like lead
- (The ship suddenly sinketh)
- Stunn'd by the loud and dreadful sound,
- Which sky and ocean smote,
- Like one that hath been seven days drown'd
- My body lay afloat;
- But swifly as dreams, myself I found
- Within the Pilot's boad.
- (The ancient Mariner is saved in the Pilot's
- boat.)
- Upon the whirl, where sank the ship,
- The boat spun round and round;
- And all was still, save that the hill
- Was telling of the sound.
- I moved my lips - the Pilot shriek'd
- And fell down in a fit;
- The holy Hermit raised his eyes,
- And pray'd where he did sit.
- I took the oars: the Pilot's boy,
- Who now doth crazy go,
- Laugh'd loud and long, and all the while
- His eyes went to and fro.
- "Ha! Ha!" quoth he, "full plain I see
- The Devil knows how to row."
- And now, all in my own countree,
- I stood on the firm land!
- The Hermit stepp'd forth from the boat,
- And scarcely he could stand.
- (The ancient Mariner earnestly entreateth
- the Hermit to shrieve him; and the penane of
- life falls on him.)
- "O shrieve me, shrieve me, holy man !"
- The Hermit cross'd his brow.
- "Say quick," quoth he, "I bid thee say -
- What manner of man art thou?"
- Forthwith this frame of mine was wrench'd
- With a woeful agony,
- Which forced me to begine my tale;
- And then it left me free.
- (And ever and anon throughout life an
- agony constraineth him to travel from land
- to land;)
- Since then, at an uncetain hour,
- That agony returns:
- And till my ghastly tale is told,
- This heart within me burns
- I pass, like night, from land to land;
- I have strange power of speech;
- That moment that his face I see,
- I know the man that must hear me:
- To him my tale I teach.
- What loud uproar bursts from that door!
- The weding-guests are there:
- But in the garden-bower the bride
- And bride-maids singing are:
- And hark, the little vesper bell,
- Which biddeth me to prayer!
- O Wedding-Guests! this soul hath been
- Alone on a wide, wide sea:
- So lonely 'twas, that God Himself
- Scarce seemed there to be.
- O sweeter than the marriage-feast,
- 'Tis sweeter far to me,
- To walk together to the kirk
- With a goodly company !-
- To walk together to the kirk,
- And all together pray,
- While each to his great Father bends,
- Old men, and babes, and loving friends,
- And youths and maidens gay!
- Farewell, farewell ! but this I tell
- To thee, thou Wedding-Guest !
- He prayeth well, who loveth well
- Both man and bird and beast.
- (And to teach, by his own example, love
- and reverence to all things that God made
- and loveth)
- He prayeth best, who loveth best
- All things both great and small;
- For the dear God who loveth us,
- He made and loveth all.'
- The Mariner, whoses eyes is bright,
- Whose beard with age is hoar,
- Is gone: and now the Wedding-Guest
- Turn'd from the bridegroom's door.
- He went like one that hath been stunn'd
- And is of sence forlorn:
- A sadder and wiser man
- He rose the morrow morn.
- HAUU
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