The wedding. He holds him with his glittering eyeguest is spellbound by the The wedding-guest stood still, eye of the old

And listens like sea-faring

years man, and con

The Mariner hath his will. strained to hear his tale.

a three

child:

The wedding-guest sat on a stone:
He can not chuse 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 kirk, below the hill,
Below the light-house top.

The Mariner tells how the ship sailed southward with a good wind and fair weather, till it reached the line.

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 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 can not chuse 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 drawn by a storm toward the south pole.

With sloping masts 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 wonderous cold :

And ice, mast-high, came floating by,
As green as emerald.

And through the drifts the snowy clift
Did send a dismal sheen:

The land of ice, and of fearful sounds, where no living thing was to be seen.

Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken-
The ice was all between.

The ice was here, the ice was there,
The ice was all around :
It cracked and growled, and roar'd and

howl’d,
Like noises in a swound !

Till a great sea-bird, called the Abaltross, came through the snow-fog, and was received with great joy and hospitality.

It ate the food it ne'er had eat,
And round and round it flew.
The ice did split with a thunder-fit;
The helmsman steer'd us through!

And a good south wind sprung up behind; And lo! the

Albatross The Albatross did follow,

proveth a bird

of good omen, And every day, for food or play,.

and followeth Came to the Mariner's hollo !

the ship as it returned northward,

through fog In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,

and floating It perch'd for vespers nine;

ice. Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke

white, Glimmered the white Moon-shine.

“ God save thee, ancient Mariner !
From the fiends, that plague thee thus !-
Why look'st thou so?”–With my cross-

bow

The ancient Mariner inhospitably killeth the pious bird of good omen.

I shot the ALBATROSS!

THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER.

PART THE SECOND,

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 !

His shipmates cry out against the ancient Mariner,for killing the bird of good luck.

And I had done an hellish thing,
And it would work 'em woe :
For all averred, I had killed the bird
That made the breeze to blow.
Ah wretch ! said they, the bird to sla
That made the breeze to blow !