“And a good south wind sprung up behind;
The Albatross did follow,
And every day, for food or play,
Came to the mariners’ hollo!
In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,
It perched for vespers nine;
Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,
Glimmered the white Moon-shine.”
“God save thee, ancient Mariner!
From the fiends, that plague thee thus!-
Why lookst thou so?-With my crossbow
I shot the ALBATROSS!”
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner,
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798