← The Sun came up upon the left, Out of the sea came he! 🔊
← And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow, 🔊
← Right up above the mast did stand, No bigger than the Moon. 🔊
← We listened and looked sideways up! Fear at my heart, as at a cup, My life-blood seemed to sip! 🔊
← The moving Moon went up the sky, And no where did abide: 🔊
← Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside— 🔊
← The helmsman steered, the ship moved on; Yet never a breeze up-blew; 🔊
← The Sun, right up above the mast, Had fixed her to the ocean: 🔊
← His great bright eye most silently Up to the Moon is cast— 🔊
← I could not draw my eyes from theirs, Nor turn them up to pray. 🔊