SELECTIONS IN ENGLISH POETRY
And fonvard bends his head,
The ship drove fast, loud roared the
blast,
And southward aye we fled. 50
And now there came both mist and snow
And it' grew wondrous cold :
And ice, mast-high, came floating by,
As green as emerald.
And' through the drifts the snowy clifts The land of 55
T^., , ,. i r ice, and of fear-
Did send a dismal sheen: j^l sound*,
Nor Shapes of men nor beasts we ken— ^h&re no living
«-,, . 11 t ^ thing was to be
The ice was.all between. seenyt
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The ice was here, the ice was there,
The ice was all around: 60
It cracked and growled, and roared and
howled,
Like noises in a swound!
At length did cross an Albatross : Till a, great sta-
Thorough the fog it came; bird- caiud ehe
As if it had been a Christian soul, fto?!J' WWM 65
w u -i i N. • o j» throufftthtfiuHo-
We hailed it in God's name. fogt and va$ re,
ceived with great
It ate the food it ne'er had eat, J°y <™d fagpt-
And round and round it flew. tatity.
The ice did split with a thunder-fit;
The helmsman steered us through ! 70
And a good south wind sprung up Jnd lo! the
behind; Albatross pro-
The Albatross did follow, v«th a bird <?/