← The Wedding-Guest here beat his breast, For he heard the loud bassoon. 🔊
← The Wedding-Guest he beat his breast, Yet he cannot choose but hear; 🔊
← And soon I heard a roaring wind: It did not come anear; 🔊
← Sometimes a-dropping from the sky I heard the sky-lark sing; 🔊
← But ere my living life returned, I heard and in my soul discerned Two voices in the air. 🔊
← But soon I heard the dash of oars, I heard the Pilot's cheer; 🔊
← The Pilot and the Pilot's boy, I heard them coming fast: 🔊
← I saw a third—I heard his voice: It is the Hermit good! 🔊
← The boat came close beneath the ship, And straight a sound was heard. 🔊
← That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach. 🔊