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This soul hath been alone on a wide wide sea

This soul hath been alone on a wide wide sea

Illustrator: Willy Pogány

Photographic process reproduction of pen and ink drawing

3 x 2 15/16 inches

1910

O Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been
     Alone on a wide wide sea:
So lonely 'twas, that God himself
     Scarce seemed there to be.

-- Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

References

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Presented [Illustrated and decorated] by Willy Pogány. New York: George H. Doran Co., [c.1910].


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