The bride hath paeed into the hall,
Red aa a rose ia abe :
Nodding their heade, before her gOH
The me1·ry minstrelsy.The Weddi.ng-Gaeat he beat his breaat,
Yet he cannot chooge bat hear;
And thus epalte on thnt ancient man,
The bright-eyed MAriner.u And now the etorm-blaat came, and be
Was tyrannous and strong :
He struck with hie o'ertaking wi.nga,
And chased us south along."With eloping masts, and dipping prow,
Aa who pursued with yell and blow
St.ill treacle the shadow of his foe,
And forward beude his bead,
The ehip drove fa.at, loud roar'd the bla.t,
And southward aye we fled.(^4) And now there e;,.me both mist and snow,
And it grew wondrous cold ;
And ice mo.st.high came floa.ting by,
As green as emerald.
"And through the drills the anowy elifl.e
Did send a dismal sheen :
Nor ahape11 of men nor beaat.a we ken-
The ice wsa all be~ween.
f< The iee was here, the ice was there,
The ice wa.a all around:
It c:rack'd and growl'u, and l'Oat''d and howl'd,
Like n oises in a swound I
"At length did erosa an Albl\ti'088,
Through the fog it came;
As It hl\d been a. Christian soul ,
We bail'd it in God's name.
''It ate the food it ne'er btul eat,
And round and round it flew.
The ice did split with o. thunder-lit;
The helmsman eteer'd us through I