The wedding-guest is spell-bound by the eye of the old seafaring man, and constrained to hear his tale.

part the first.

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 chuse 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 kirka church, below the hill, Below the lighthouse top.

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