THE RIME OF THE ANCYENT MARINERE, IN SEVEN PARTS.

ARGUMENT.

How a Ship having passed the Line was driven by Storms to the cold
Country towards the South Pole; and how from thence she made her course
to the tropical Latitude of the Great Pacific Ocean; and of the strange
things that befell; and in what manner the Ancyent Marinere came back to
his own Country.

1.

1      It is an ancient Marinere,
2        And he stoppeth one of three:
3      "By thy long grey beard and thy glittering eye
4        "Now wherefore stoppest me?