# Quote — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner

> O happy living things! no tongue
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> Their beauty might declare:
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> A spring of love gushed from my heart,
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> And I blessed them unaware:
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> Sure my kind saint took pity on me,
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> And I blessed them unaware.

- Author: [Samuel Taylor Coleridge](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-taylor-coleridge.md)
- Book: [The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner](https://www.leafyquotes.com/samuel-taylor-coleridge/the-rime-of-the-ancient-mariner.md)
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## More from this book

> I fear thee, ancient Mariner!
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> I fear thy skinny hand!
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> And thou art long, and lank, and brown,
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> As is the ribbed sea-sand.

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> "Ha! ha!" quoth he, "full plain I see,
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> The Devil knows how to row."

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> Alone, alone, all, all alone,
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> Alone on a wide wide sea!
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> And never a saint took pity on
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> My soul in agony.

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