"Encounter with the Hermit"
"This Hermit good lives in that wood
Which slopes down to the sea.
How loudly his weet voice he rears!
He loves to talk with marineres
That come from a far countree."

From "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
      by S.T. Coleridge
"The HERMIT of the Wood"/05

The Hermit of the Wood approaches the ship with
wonder...The ship suddenly sinketh and The Ancient
Mariner is saved by the Hermit in the Pilot's boat...
"The Mariner's Heart"/05

"Since then, at a certain hour,
That agony returns:
And still my gastly tale is told,
This heart within me burns.

I pass, like night, from land to land;
I have strange power of speech;
That moment that his face I see,
I know the man that must hear me:
To him my tale I teach"

S.T Coleridge