The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Sure, it's long as hell. But it's easier if you read it to the tune of "Gilligan's Island."
Okay, here's just my favourite excerpt then. Zombie sailors!


"...The loud wind never reached the ship,
Yet now the ship moved on!
Beneath the lightning and the Moon
The dead men gave a groan.

They groaned, they stirred, they all uprose,
Nor spake, nor moved their eyes;
It had been strange, even in a dream,
To have seen those dead men rise.

The helmsman steered, the ship moved on;
Yet never a breeze up-blew;
The mariners all 'gan work the ropes,
Where they were wont to do;
They raised their limbs like lifeless tools--
We were a ghastly crew.

The body of my brother's son
Stood by me, knee to knee:
The body and I pulled at one rope,
But he said nought to me...."


Link to the whole thing. Like you don't know the story already.

Comments

[lightmycandle1.livejournal.com]

Now I can't stop reading with a Gilligan Island theme going through my head. Heh, much more amusing than the first time I read it. :)

[brassdaughter.livejournal.com]

Holy cow. It never occured to me to read it like that...

[aliena-z.livejournal.com]

But it's easier if you read it to the tune of "Gilligan's Island."

That's hilarious! Now you've corrupted it for me, for all time. Thank you!