*_We are Seven_.

[X.] _The Ancient Mariner and Coleridge, &c.

&c._ &c.&c.
Written at Alfoxden in the spring of 1798, under circumstances somewhat remarkable.

The little girl who is the heroine, I met within the area of Goderich Castle in the year 1793.

Having left the Isle of Wight, and crost Salisbury Plain, as mentioned in the preface to 'Guilt and Sorrow,' I proceeded by Bristol up the Wye, and so on to N.Wales to the Vale of Clwydd, where I spent my summer under the roof of the father of my friend, Robert Jones.
In reference to this poem, I will here mention one of the most remarkable facts in my own poetic history, and that of Mr.Coleridge.