“The fair breeze blew,
The white foam flew,
And the forrow followed free.
We were the first to ever burst into the silent sea.”

—  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, book The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

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English poet, literary critic and philosopher 1772–1834

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