"And now there came both mist and snow,
And it grew wondrous cold:

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

"And through the drifts the snowy clifts The land of ice,

Did send a dismal sheen :

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

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 cracked and growled, and roared and howled,

Like noises in a swound!

"At length did cross an Albatross,
Thorough the fog it came;

As if it had been a Christian soul,
We hail'd it in God's name.

"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 steered us through.

Till a great seabird, called the Albatross, came through the snow-fog, and was received with great joy and hospitality.

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

The Albatross did follow,

And every day, for food or play,
Came to the mariners' hollo!

batross proveth a bird of good omen, and followeth the ship as it returned

northward

through fog and

floating ice.

"In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,
It perched for vespers nine;

Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,

Glimmered the white moon-shine."