Excerpts from

The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

The moving Moon went up the sky,

And nowhere did abide:

Softly she was going up,

And a star or two beside --

Her beams bemocked the sultry main,

Like April hoar-frost spread;

But where the ship's huge shadow lay,

The charmed water burnt alway

A still and awful red.

Beyond the shadow of the ship,

I watched the water-snakes:

They moved in tracks of shining white,

And when they reared, the elfish light

Fell off in hoary flakes.

Within the shadow of the ship

I watched their rich attire:

Blue, glossy green, and velvet black,

They coiled and swam; and every track

Was a flash of golden fire.

O happy living things! no tongue

Their beauty might declare:

A spring of love gushed from my heart,

And I blessed them unaware:

Sure my kind saint took pity on me,

And I blessed them unaware.

The self-same moment I could pray;

And from my neck so free

The Albatross fell off, and sank

Like lead into the sea.

The Mariner, whose eye is bright,

Whose beard with age is hoar,

Is gone: and now the Wedding-Guest

Turned from the Bridegroom'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.

~Samuel Cooleridge~

The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner is one of Pete's favorites.

It has brought special meaning to his life...

This is how he feels:

" I believe that on the last moment of my last day in this life I will finally meet our Mariner who will clasp me to his bosom and fondly kiss my cheek as a sign of friendship and understanding. My sins, and there have been many, will not be washed away or forgiven, but forgotten, along with everything else and where I fall a flower shall bloom and passerby's will stop for a moment and marvel at its colors.

"Artwork courtesy of and copyright by Daniel B. Holeman, who invites you

to visit his Visionary Art Gallery web site - Awaken Visions." 

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