...rot: 0 Christ! That ever this should be! Is, Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. About, about in reel and rout The death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, s,o Burnt green, and blue and white. A Spirit had followed them; one of the invisible inhabitants of...

...rot: O Girisi! That ever this should be! uj Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. About, about in reel and rout The death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, 130 Burnt green, and blue and white. A Spirit had followed them; one of the invisible inhabitants of...

...rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, 130 Burnt green, and blue and white. And some in dreams assured were Of the Spirit that plagued us...

...Christ! / That ever this should be! / Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs / Upon the slimy sea. / About, about, in reel and rout / The death-fires danced...a witch's oils, / Burnt green, and blue and white. These beautiful verses are the product of Coleridge's poetic imagination.7 But reality was often ever...

...5.137) are at the same time a 'bed of glittering light' diffused 'over half the wilderness' (5.128-9). ('The water, like a witch's oils / Burnt green, and blue and white' [129-30], writes Coleridge in The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.) The 'mind in creation' inhabiting a...

..."silent sea" and the crew dying of thirst, another frequently postulated source of myth comes into play: "'some in dreams assured were / Of the Spirit that plagued us so'" (CPW, 1:191). The ancients, as is clear from Cicero's De divinatione or even from the story in Genesis...

...rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs upon the slimy sea. About, about, in reel and rout the death-fires danced...of mist and snow. And every tongue, through utter drought, was withered at the root; we could not speak, no more than if we had been choked with soot....

...rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires danced...like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue and white. A Spirit had followed them; one of the invisible inhabitants of this planet, neither departed souls...

...Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, p. 53): Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires danced...a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue, and white. The last line, with its vivid colors, calls to mind the passage from Captain Cook quoted above; the...

...rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires danced...like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue and white. » (Sir Walter Scott, 1771-1832) ^W^M^te^ ° < (The Lay of the Last Minstrel, 1805) fflfe Border, 1802-03)...