I remember, I remember I remember, I remember My spirit flew in feathers then, And summer pools could hardly cool I remember, I remember I used to think their slender tops It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from Heaven THE LIGHTS OF LONDON TOWN. GEORGE R. SIMS. The way was long and weary, But gallantly they strode, A country lad and lassie, The night was dark and stormy, For shining in the distance The Lights of London lay. O gleaming lamps of London that gem the City's crown, What fortunes lie within you, O Lights of London Town. The years passed on and found them The years had brought them trouble, O mocking lamps of London, what weary eyes look down, And mourn the day they saw you, O Lights of London Town. With faces worn and weary, O cruel lamps of London, if tears your light could drown, Your victims' eyes would weep them, O Lights of London town. AS SLOW OUR SHIP. THOMAS MOORE. As slow our ship her foamy track And when, in other climes, we meet To live and die in scenes like this, As travellers oft look back at eve THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER. SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. PART I. It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three, 'By thy long gray beard and glittering eye, Now wherefore stopst thou me? "The Bridegroom's doors are opened wide, And I am next of kin; The guests are met, the feast is set: Mayst hear the merry din!" He holds him with his skinny hand, "There was a ship," quoth he. "Hold off! unhand me, gray-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 Wedding-Guest sat on a stone; And thus spake on that ancient man, "The ship was cheered, the harbor 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 "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, Nodding their heads before her goes The Wedding-Guest he beat his breast, "And now the storm-blast came, and he He struck with his o'ertaking wings, "With sloping masts and dipping prow, Still treads the shadow of his foe The ship drove fast, loud roared the blast, "And now there came both mist and snow, And ice, mast-high, came floating by, "And through the drifts the snowy clifts Nor shapes of men nor beasts we ken- "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, As if it had been a Christian soul, "It ate the food it ne'er had ate, The ice did split with a thunder-fit; "And a good south wind sprung up behind; The Albatross did follow, And every day, for food or play, Came to the mariners' 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 lookst thou so?"-" 'With my cross-bow shot the Albatross." PART II. 'The sun now rose upon the right: Out of the sea came he, Still hid in mist, and on the left |