lirik lagu john rubinstein - the rime of the ancient mariner (excerpt)
it is an ancient mariner
and he stoppeth one of three
‘by thy long grey beard and glittering eye
now wherefore stopp’st thou me?
the bridegroom’s doors are opened wide
and i am next of kin;
the guests are met, the feast is set:
may’st hear the merry din.’
he holds him with his skinny hand
‘there was a ship,’ quoth he
‘hold off! unhand me, grey~beard loon!’
eftsoons his hand dropt he
he holds him with his glittering eye—
the wedding~guest stood still
and listens like a three years’ child:
the mariner hath his will
the wedding~guest sat on a stone:
he cannot choose but hear;
and thus spake on that ancient man
the bright~eyed mariner
‘the ship was cheered, the harbour cleared
merrily did we drop
below the kirk, below the hill
below the lighthouse top
the sun came up upon the left
out of the sea came he!
and he shone bright, and on the right
went down into the sea
higher and higher every day
till over the mast at noon—’
the wedding~guest here beat his breast
for he heard the loud bassoon
the bride hath paced into the hall
red as a rose is she;
nodding their heads before her goes
the merry minstrelsy
the wedding~guest he beat his breast
yet he cannot choose but hear;
and thus spake on that ancient man
the bright~eyed mariner
and now the storm~blast came, and he
was tyrannous and strong:
he struck with his o’ertaking wings
and chased us south along
with sloping masts and dipping prow
as who pursued with yell and blow
still treads the shadow of his foe
and forward bends his head
the ship drove fast, loud roared the blast
and southward aye we fled
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!
at length did cross an albatross
thorough the fog it came;
as if it had been a christian soul
we hailed it in god’s name
it ate the food it ne’er had eat
and round and round it flew
the ice did split with a thunder~fit;
the helmsman steered us through!
and a good south wind sprung up behind;
the albatross did follow
and every day, for food or play
came to the mariner’s hollo!
in mist or cloud, on mast or shroud
it perched for vespers nine;
whiles all the night, through fog~smoke white
glimmered the white moon~shine.’
‘god save thee, ancient mariner!
from the fiends, that plague thee thus!—
why look’st thou so?’—with my cross~bow
i shot the albatross
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