SELECTIONS IN ENGLISH POETRY

I dreamt that they were filled with dew; Mariner is ref-

A « , T ,, ., - j reshed with rain.

And when I awoke, it rained. 300

My lips were wet, my throat was cold,
My garments all were dank;
Sure I had drunken in my dreams,
And still my body drank.

I moved, and could not feel my limbs : 305

I was so light—almost

I thought that I had died in sleep,

And was a blessed ghost.

And soon I heard a roaring wind :
PL did not come anear;
But with its sound it shook the sails,
That were so thin and sere.

The upper air burst into life!
And a hundred fire-flags sheen,
To and fro they were hurried about!
And to and fro, and in and out,
The wan stars danced between.

And the coming wind did roar more

loud,

And the sails did sigh like sedge;
And the rain poured down from one

black cloud; 32°

The Moon was at its edge.

The thick black cloud was cleft, and

still
The Moon was at its side :

98

He heareth

sounds andseeth

strange siffh'ts 3IO>

and commotions

in the sky and

the element.

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