Excerpt from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Upon a painted ocean duncan Instead of the cross, the Albatross About my neck was hung E. H. Wehnert When looking westward, I beheld A something in the sky E. H. Wehnert When that strange shape drove suddenly Betwixt its and the Swn E. Duncan. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.