← And thus spake on that ancient man, The bright-eyed Mariner. 🔊
← The many men, so beautiful! And they all dead did lie: 🔊
← I looked upon the rotting deck, And there the dead men lay. 🔊
← But oh! more horrible than that Is the curse in a dead man's eye! 🔊
← Beneath the lightning and the Moon The dead men gave a groan. 🔊
← It had been strange, even in a dream, To have seen those dead men rise. 🔊
← 'Is it he?' quoth one, 'Is this the man? By him who died on cross, 🔊
← He loved the bird that loved the man Who shot him with his bow.' 🔊
← Quoth he, 'The man hath penance done, And penance more will do.' 🔊
← That moment that his face I see, I know the man that must hear me: To him my tale I teach. 🔊