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In mist or cloud, on mast and shroud

Illustrator: Willy Pogány

Watercolor

6 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches; with border: 7 1/2 x 5 1/16 inches

c. 1910

At length did cross an Albatross,
     Through the fog it came . . ..

In mist or cloud, on mast and shroud
     It perched for vespers nine;
Whiles all the night, through fog-smoke white,
     Glimmered the white moon-shine.

     -- Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

References

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Presented [Illustrated and decorated] by Willy Pogány. New York: George H. Doran Co., [c.1910].


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