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...did I." He "look'd" to heaven and tried to pray — like Hamlet's Claudius, in vain: or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust. But the static monotony of the ocean desert ("the sky and the sea, and the sea and the sky / Lay like...

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...crew, is denied even the power to pray. I looked to Heaven and tried to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, IV, 244-7 The Ancient Mariner felt remorse and deep contrition about...

...ghastly deck, And there the dead men lay. I looked to heaven, and tried to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came and made My heart as dry as dust. Today, we should not be far from the author's understanding if we saw the above as a vision of the...

...saint took pity on My soul in agony . . . I looked to heaven, and tried to pray; But or ever a prayer had gusht, A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. ('Ancient Mariner', Part IV, Samuel Taylor Coleridge) This was no easy life. Time and again boats would...

...And there the dead men lay. I looked to heaven, and tried to pray; But or ever a prayer had gushed, A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. I closed my lids, and kept them close, And the balls like pulses beat, For the sky and the sea, and the...

...Mariner, when the old sailor, who has b the unwitting cause of the deaths of the crew, is denied even A wicked whisper came, and made My heart as dry as dust. The Rime of the Ancient Manner, IV, 244-7 e Ancient Mariner felt remorse and deep contrition about...

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