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The moving Moon went up the sky, And no where did abide; Softly she was going up, And a… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The moving Moon went up the sky, And no where did abide; Softly she was going up, And a star or two beside-

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner · 1798
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The moonThe night sky
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Poem
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1798
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Major Works, edited by H. J. Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2009, pt. 4.
Original citation
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. "The Rime of the Ancyent Marinere." Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems. London: J. & A. Arch, 1798, pt. 4.

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