SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE

��And some in dreams assured were Of the Spirit that plagued us so ; Nine fathom deep he had followed us From the land of mist and snow.

��A Spirit had followed them, one of the in visible inhabit, ants of this planet, neither departed souls nor angels ; con-

��cernlnp- whom the learned Jew, Josephus, and the Platonic Constantinopolitan, Michael Psellus, may be consulted. Tr. climate or element without one or more.

��rhey are very numerous, and there is no

��And every tongue, through utter drought, Was withered at the root; We could not speak, no more than if We had been choked with soot.

Ah ! well a-day ! what evil looks Had I from old and young ! Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung.

PART III

• There passed a weary time. Each throat

Was parch'd, and glazed each eye.

A weary time ! a weary time !

How glazed each weary eye !

When looking westward, I beheld

A something in the sky.

At first it seem'd a little speck, And then it seem'd a mist; It moved and moved, and took at last A certain shape, I wist.

A speck, a mist, . a shape, I wist ! And still it near'd and near'd : As if it dodged a water-sprite, It plunged, and tack'd, and veer'd.

��The shipmates in their sore distress, would fain throw the whole guilt on the ancient Mariner : in sign whereof they hang the dead sea-bird round his neck.

��The ancient Mariner be- holdeth a sign in the element afar off.

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