BIDEFORD,
_April_ 24, 1855.
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_The basis of this little book was an Article which appeared in the_
_North British Review for November_ 1854.
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BEYOND the shadow of the ship,
I watch’d the water snakes:
They moved in tracks of shining white,
And when they rear’d, the elfish light
Fell off in hoary flakes.
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O happy living things! no tongue
Their beauty might declare:
A spring of love gush’d from my heart,
And I bless’d them unware.
COLERIDGE’S _Ancient Mariner_.