✨ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner [excerpt]

And now there came...

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner [excerpt]

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
Did send a dismal sheen:
Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken—
The ice was all between.

The ice was here, the ice was there,
The ice was all around:
It cracked and growled, and roared and howled,
Like noises in a swound!

—Samuel Taylor Colderidge

✨ A fun note: “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” is used as a metaphor in an upcoming science fiction novel from Sara Barkat, Otherside.

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