About, about, in reel and rout And some in dreams assured were 130 A spirit had nor angels; whom the learned Jew, Josephus, and the Platonic Constantinopolitan, Michael 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 135 Was withered at the root; We could not speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot. Ah! well a-day! what evil looks The shipmates, in their sore distress, 140 would fain throw the whole guilt on the ancient Mariner: in sign whereof they hang the dead seabird round his neck. 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. A certain shape, I wist. A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! And still it neared and neared: As if it dodged a water-sprite, 155 With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, Through utter drought all dumb we stood! I bit my arm, I sucked the blood, And cried, A sail! a sail! 160 With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, Gramercy! they for joy did grin, And all at once their breath drew in, As they were drinking all. See! see! (I cried) she tacks no more! Without a breeze, without a tide, Rested the broad bright sun; When that strange shape drove suddenly 165 170 And straight the sun was flecked with bars, As if through a dungeon-grate he peered Alas! (thought I, and my heart beat loud) Are those her sails that glance in the sun, Are those her ribs through which the sun And is that woman all her crew? Is that a Death? and are there two? Is Death that woman's mate? 175 180 A flash of joy; And horror follows. For can it be a ship that comes onward without wind or tide? It seemeth him but the skeleton of a ship. And its ribs are seen as bars on the 185 face of the setting sun. The spectrewoman and her deathmate, and no other on board the skeletonship. of day and deep okey, farthe Past we sell, like a sfells like a fallen for Excelcior September 28. 1841 "Half past 3 o'clock Ley ཆག་ གཅོང་ བ་ COLERIDGE. THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER. IN SEVEN PARTS. FACILE credo, plures esse Naturas invisibiles quam visibiles in rerum universitate. Sed horum omnium familiam quis nobis enarrabit, et gradus et cognationes et discrimina et singulorum munera? Quid agunt? quæ loca habitant? Harum rerum notitiam semper ambivit ingenium humanum, nunquam attigit. Juvat, interea, non diffiteor, quandoque in animo, tanquam in tabula, majoris et melioris mundi imaginem contemplari: ne mens assuefacta hodiernæ vitæ minutiis se contrahat nimis, et tota subsidat in pusillas cogitationes. Sed veritati interea invigilandum est, modusque servandus, ut certa ab incertis, diem a nocte, distinguamus.-T. BURNET. ARCHEOL. PHIL. p. 68. PART I. Ir is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. An ancient Mariner meeteth three gallants bidden "By thy long gray beard and glittering eye, to a wedding feast, and detaineth Now wherefore stopp'st thou me? The bridegroom's doors are opened wide, 5 And I am next of kin ; The guests are met, the feast is set: May'st hear the merry din.” one. |