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And a good south wind sprung up behind, The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariner's hollo! "God save thee, ancient Mariner! Prom the fiends that plague thee thus!— Why look'st thou so?"—"With my cross-bow I shot the Albatross."
And a good south wind sprung up behind, The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariner's hollo! "God save thee, ancient Mariner! Prom the fiends that plague thee thus!— Why look'st thou so?"—"With my cross-bow I shot the Albatross."
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 19 · quotation 9 · Coleridge · Ancient Mariner. Pt. I. St. 18.
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