ILLUSTRATIONS.

At length did cross an Albatross

It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three .

Merrily did we drop

Below the kirk, below the hill

Nodding their heads before her goes
The merry minstrelsy.

And ice, mast-high, came floating by,
As green as emerald

And every day, for food or play,
Came to the mariners' hollo! .

With my cross-bow

I shot the Albatross.

Ah wretch! said they, the bird to slay,
That made the breeze to blow!

As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean

Instead of the cross, the Albatross
About my neck was hung.

When, looking westward, I beheld
A something in the sky

When that strange shape drove suddenly
Betwixt us and the Sun

THE

RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER.

IN SEVEN PARTS.

FACILE credo, plures esse Naturas invisibiles quam visibiles in rerum universitate. Sed horum omnium familiam quis nobis enarrabit, et gradus et cognationes et discrimina et singulorum munera ? Quid agunt? Quæ loca habitant? Harum rerum notitiam semper ambivit ingenium humanum, nunquam attigit. Juvat, interea, non diffiteor, quandoque in animo, tanquam in tabulâ, majoris et melioris mundi imaginem contemplari: ne mens assuefacta hodiernæ vitæ minutiis se contrahat nimis, et tota subsidat in pusillas cogitationes. Sed veritati interea invigilandum est, modusque servandus, ut certa ab incertis, diem a nocte, distinguamus. T.

ner meeteth three

gallants bidden

to a wedding

And he stoppeth one of three.

feast, and detain- "By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,

eth one.

Now wherefore stopp'st thou me?