over the summit of Quantock at earliest dawn just between the nightingale that I stopt to hear in the copse at the foot of Quantock, and the first sky-lark that was a song-fountain, dashing up and sparkling to the ear's eye, ...

out of sight, over the cornfields on the descent of the mountain on the other side--out of sight, tho' twice I beheld its mute shoot downward in the sunshine like a falling star of silver"-- so he described the conception of the poem in the original MS., printed by Mr.Campbell in the Notes to the Globe edition.

It was a flash of poignant memory of the old days at Stowey.

The first thirty-eight lines were printed in 1828, and the whole poem (including the last six lines, which were not in the original draft) in 1834.
"Work Without Hope" was written, Coleridge says, "on the 21st February, 1827," and was first printed in 1828.
THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER IN SEVEN PARTS Facile credo, plures esse Naturas invisibiles quam visibiles in rerum universitate.

Sed horum omnium familiam quis nobis enarrabit?
et gradus et cognationes et discrimina et singulorum munera?
Quid agunt?
quae loca habitant?
Harum rerum notitiam semper ambivit ingenium humanum, nunquam attigit.