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| There passed a weary time. Each throat | |
| A weary time! a weary time! | |
| When looking westward, I beheld | |
| At first it seemed a little speck, | |
| It moved and moved, and took at last | |
| A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! | |
| As if it dodged a water-sprite, | |
| With throats unslaked, with black lips baked, | |
| Through utter drought all dumb we stood! | |
| And cried, A sail! a sail! | |
| Agape they heard me call: | |
| And all at once their breath drew in, | |
| See! see! (I cried) she tacks no more! | |
| Without a breeze, without a tide, | |
| The western wave was all a-flame | |
| Almost upon the western wave | |
| When that strange shape drove suddenly | |
| 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 DEATH that woman's mate? | |
| Her locks were yellow as gold: | |
| The Night-Mare LIFE-IN-DEATH was she, | |
| The naked hulk alongside came, | |
| 'The game is done! I've won! I've won!' | |
| The Sun's rim dips; the stars rush out: | |
| With far-heard whisper, o'er the sea. | |
| We listened and looked sideways up! | |
| My life-blood seemed to sip! | |
| The steersman's face by his lamp gleamed white; | |
| Till clombe above the eastern bar | |
| Within the nether tip. | |
| Too quick for groan or sigh, | |
| And cursed me with his eye. | |
| (And I heard nor sigh nor groan) | |
| They dropped down one by one. | |
| They fled to bliss or woe! | |
| 'I fear thee, ancient Mariner! | |
| And thou art long, and lank, and brown, | |
| 'I fear thee and thy glittering eye, | |
| Fear not, fear not, thou Wedding-Guest! | |
| Alone, alone, all, all alone, | |
| And never a saint took pity on | |
| The many men, so beautiful! | |
| And a thousand thousand slimy things | |
| I looked upon the rotting sea, | |
| I looked upon the rotting deck, | |
| I looked to Heaven, and tried to pray: | |
| A wicked whisper came, and made | |
| I closed my lids, and kept them close, | |
| For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky | |
| And the dead were at my feet. | |
| Nor rot nor reek did they: | |
| Had never passed away. | |
| A spirit from on high; | |
| Is a curse in a dead man's eye! | |
| And yet I could not die. | |
| And no where did abide: | |
| And a star or two beside. | |
| Like April hoar-frost spread; | |
| The charmed water burnt alway | |
| Beyond the shadow of the ship, | |
| They moved in tracks of shining white, | |
| Fell off in hoary flakes. | |
| I watched their rich attire: | |
| They coiled and swam; and every track | |
| O happy living things! no tongue | |
| A spring of love gushed from my heart, | |
| Sure my kind saint took pity on me, | |
| The self same moment I could pray; | |
| The Albatross fell off, and sank | |