The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834)

First voice `But why drives on that ship so fast, Without or wave or wind?’ Second voice `The air is cut away before, And closes from behind.  

Argument

How a Ship having passed the Line was driven by storms to the cold Country towards the South Pole; and how from thence she made her course to the tropical Latitude of the Great Pacific Ocean; and of the strange things that befell; and in what manner the Ancyent Marinere came back to his own Country.