The rime of the ancient mariner

 by Samuel Coleridge

An old man is telling his story to another man who is going to be married.

He told him that when he was on his sailing boat with his crew, he had been blocked by an iceberg. After a few moments, an albatross came and then it delivered the boat. Every member of the crew were relieved except the mariner who killed the big bird. After that the wind stopped so the boat couldn’t move anymore. To punish him of having killed one of the creatures of God, the other men forced him to keep a row attached to the bird, around his neck. One by one the member of the crew died. Then the mariner was alone and began to consider that praying was the best solution to be safe so he started to do it and then the wind blew over the sea and the mariner could came back home.

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