OF THE ANCYENT MARINERE, IN SEVEN PARTS, now By SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE, PARIS, Printed for ÉMILE- PAUL Brothers, M.CM.XX At the Sign of the Rainbow. T. BURNET, Archaol. Phil. page 68: FACILE credo, plures esse Naturas invisibiles quam visibiles in rerum universitate. Sed horum omnium familiam quis nobis enarrabit? & gradus & cognationes & discrimina & singulorum munera ? Quid agunt ? quae loca habitant? Harum rerum notitiam semper ambivit ingenium humanum, nunquam attigit. Juvat, interea, non diffiteor, quandoque in animo, tanquam in tabula, majoris & melioris mundi imaginem contemplari: ne mens assuefacta hodierna vita minutiis se contrahat nimis, & tota subsidat in pusillas cogitationes. Sed veritati interea invigilandum est, modusque servandus, ut certa ab incertis, diem a nocte, distinguamus. I T is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three. 'By thy long grey beard & glitteNow wherefore stopp'st thou me ? [ring eye, The Bridegroom's doors are opened wide, *An ancient Mariner meeteth three Gallants bidden to a wedding-feast, & detaineth one. And *The WeddingGuest is spell-bound by the eye of the old sea-faring man, & constrained to hear his tale. And I am next of kin ; The guests are met, the feast is set: May'st hear the merry din.' He holds him with his skinny hand, 'Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!' *He holds him with his glittering eye— And listens like a three years' child: The Mariner hath his will. The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone : He cannot choose but hear; And thus spake on that ancient man, The bright-eyed Mariner. "The ship was cheered, he harbour cleared, Merrily did we drop Below the kirk, below the hill, Below the lighthouse top. The |