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OF THE

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINGIS

They groan'd, they stirr'd, they all uprose,
Nor spake, nor moved their eyes;

It had been strange, even in a dream,

To have seen those dead men rise.

The helmsman steer'd, the ship moved on ;

Yet never a breeze up-blew;

The mariners all 'gan work the ropes,

Where they were won't to do:

They raised their limbs like lifeless tools

We were a ghastly crew.

The body of my brother's son

Stood by me, knee to knee :

The body and I pull'd at one rope,

But he said nought to me.

I fear thee, ancient Mariner!"

"Be calm, thou Wedding-Guest!

'Twas not those souls that fled in pain,

Which to their corses came again,

But a troop of spirits blest:

For when it dawn'd—they dropp'd their arms,
And cluster'd round the mast ;

Sweet sounds rose slowly through their mouths,
And from their bodies pass'd.

*This stanza continues thus in the edition of 1798:
"And I quaked to think of my own voice
How frightful it would be !"

The subsequent stanza was added in the edition of 1800.-Ed.

The day light dawn'd.-1798.