Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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I bit my arm, I sucked the blood,
And cried, A sail! a sail!

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Swiftly, swiftly flew the ship, Yet she sailed softly too: Sweetly, sweetly blew the breeze - On me alone it blew.

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The ship was cheered, the harbor cleared,
Merrily did we drop Below the kirk, below the hill,
Below the lighthouse top.

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'God save thee, ancient Mariner!
From the fiends that plague thee thus!—
Why look'st thou so?'—With my cross-bow
I shot the Albatross.

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An orphan's curse would drag to Hell
A spirit from on high;
But oh! More horrible than that
Is the curse in a dead man's eye.

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A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn.

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The moving moon went up the sky,
And nowhere did abide;
Softly she was going up,
And a star or two beside.

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He holds him with his glittering eye —
The Wedding Guest stood still,
And listens like a three years' child:
The Mariner hath his will.

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I look'd to Heav'n, and try'd to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust.

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Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on
My soul in agony.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"God save thee, ancient Mariner!
From the fiends, that plague thee thus! —
Why look'st thou so?" — "With my crossbow I shot the Albatross."

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We listened and looked sideways up!
Fear at my heart, as at a cup,
My lifeblood seemed to sip.

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And a thousand thousand slimy things
Lived on; and so did I.

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The guests are met, the feast is set:
May'st hear the merry din.

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The man hath penance done,
And penance more will do.

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