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Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner and Select Poems

PART THE SECOND
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"Her skin was as white as leprosy" is a feat in suggestion.
10, 199, marginal gloss--*within the courts of the Sun*.

Between the tropics of Cancer and Capricorn.
210--*with one bright star Within the nether tip*.

An interesting case of poetical illusion.

No one, of course, ever saw a star _within_ the tip of the horned moon.

Yet a good many readers, until reminded of their astronomy, think they have seen this phenomenon.


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