| "The Return" |
| "FAREWELL, FAREWELL! but this I tell To thee, thou Wedding-Gest! He prayed well, who loveth well Both man and bird and beast. He prayeth best, who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all. The Mariner, whose eye is bright, Whose beard with age is hoar, Is gone: and now the Wedding-Guest Turned from the bridgegroom's door. He went like one that hath been stunned, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow morn" "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge" |
| "THE MARINER'S RETURN"/05 (click on image to enlarge) "What loud uproar burst from that door! The wedding-guests are there: But in the garden-bower the bride And bride-maids singing are: And hark the little vesper bell, Which biddeth me to prayer! O Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely 'twas, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. "O Sweeter than the marriage-feast, 'Tis sweeter far to me, To walk together to the kirk With a goodly company!-"... |