THE RIME OF THE ANCYENT MARINERE-4

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    "I fear thee, a Marinere!

    "I fear thy skinny hand;

    "And thou art long and lank and brown

    "As is the ribbd Sea-sand.

    "I fear thee and thy glittering eye

    "And thy skinny hand so brown"--

    Fear not, fear not, thou wedding guest!

    This body dropt not down.

    Alone, alone, all all alone

    Alone on the wide wide Sea;

    And Christ would take no pity on

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    The many men so beautiful,

    And they all dead did lie!

    And a million million slimy things

    Livd on--and so did I.

    I lookd ubbr>藏书网</abbr>poting Sea,

    And drew my eyes away;

    I lookd upon the eldritch deck,

    And there the dead men lay.

    I lookd to Heaven, and tryd to pray;

    But or ever a prayer had gusht,

    A wicked whisper came and made

    My heart as dry as dust.

    I y lids ahem close,

    Till the balls like pulses beat;

    For the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky

    Lay like a load on my weary eye,

    And the dead were at my feet.

    The cold sweat melted from their limbs,

    , ne reek did they;

    The look with which they lookd on me,

    Had never passd away.

    An orphans curse would drag to Hell

    A spirit from on high:

    But O! more horrible than that

    Is the curse in a dead mans eye!

    Seven days, seven nights I saw that curse

    A I could not die.

    The moving Moo up the sky

    And no where d<s></s>id abide:

    Softly she was going up

    And a star or two beside--

    Her beams bemockd the sultry main

    Like m frosts yspread;

    But where the ships huge shadow lay,

    The charmed water burnt alway

    A still and awful red.

    Beyond the shadow of the ship

    I watchd the water-snakes:

    They movd in tracks of shining white;

    And when they reard, the el?sh light

    Fell off in hoary ?akes.

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    I watchd their rich attire:

    Blue, glossy green, a black

    They coild and swam; an<samp>.</samp>d every track

    Was a ?ash of golden ?re.

    O happy living things! no tongue

    Their beauty might declare:

    A spring of love gusht from my heart,

    And I blessd them unaware!

    Sure my kind saint took pity on me,

    And I blessd them unaware.

    The self-same moment I could pray;

    And from my neck so free

    The Albatross fell off, and sank

    Like lead into the sea.

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