The Pilot and the Pilot's boy

Willy Pogány

Watercolor

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

c. 1910

From Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:

But soon I heard the dash of oars,
     I heard the Pilot's cheer!
My head was turned perforce away
     And I saw a boat appear.

The Pilot and the Pilot's boy,
     I heard them coming fast:
Dear Lord in Heaven! it was a joy
     The dead men could not blast.

Scanned image and text by George P. Landow

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