Poetical works, including the dramas of Wallenstein, Remorse, and Zapolya . e to prayer! 0 Wedding-Guest! this soul hath beenAlone on a wide wide sea:So lonely twas, that, God himselfScarce seemed there to be. 0 sweeter than the marriage-feast,Tis sweeter far to me,To walk together to the kirkWith a goodly company!— To walk together to the kirk, And all together pray, While each to his great Father bends, Old men, and babes, and loving friends, And youths and maidens gay! Farewell, farewell! but this I tell And t0 teach» by his own To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! example, ° love and He prayeth we
Poetical works, including the dramas of Wallenstein, Remorse, and Zapolya . e to prayer! 0 Wedding-Guest! this soul hath beenAlone on a wide wide sea:So lonely twas, that, God himselfScarce seemed there to be. 0 sweeter than the marriage-feast,Tis sweeter far to me,To walk together to the kirkWith a goodly company!— To walk together to the kirk, And all together pray, While each to his great Father bends, Old men, and babes, and loving friends, And youths and maidens gay! Farewell, farewell! but this I tell And t0 teach» by his own To thee, thou Wedding-Guest! example, ° love and He prayeth well, who loveth well 2T35££* Both man and bird and beast. j^t£ade and 38 THE ANCIENT MARINER. He prayeth best, who loveth bestAll things both great and small;For the dear God who loveth us,He made and loveth all. The Mariner, whose eye is bright,Whose beard with age is hoar,Is gone : and now the Wedding-GuestTurned from the bridegrooms 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. PREFACE.* The first part of the following poem was written in the year onethousand seven hundred and ninety seven, at Stowey in thecounty of Somerset. The second part, after my return fromGermany, in the year one thousand eight hundred, at Keswick,Cumberland. Since the latter date, my poetic powers havebeen, till very lately in a state of suspended animation. Butas, in my very first conception of the tale, I had the whole pre-sent to my mind, with the wholeness, no less than with theloveliness of a vision, I trust that I shall yet be able to embodyin verse the three parts yet to come. It is probable, that if the poem had been finished at eitherof the former periods, or if even the first and second part hadbeen published in the year 1800, the impression of its origi-nality would have been much greater than I dare at presentexpect. But for this, I have only my own indolence to dates are mentioned for t
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