And to teach, by his own example, love and reve that God made And hark the little vesper bell, "O Wedding-Guest! 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, "Farewell, farewell! but this I tell rence to all things He prayeth well, who loveth well and loveth. "He prayeth best, who loveth best He made and loveth all." The Mariner, whose eye is bright, Is gone and now the Wedding-Guest |