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The ship was cheered

The ship was cheered

Illustrator: Willy Pogány

Watercolor

6 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches; with border: 7 1/2 x 5 1/16 inches

c. 1910

The ship was cheered, the harbour cleared,
     Merrily we did drop
Below the kirk, below the hill,
     Below the light-house top.

     -- 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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