The souls did from their bodies fly

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:

The souls did from their bodies fly, --
     They fled to bliss or woe!
And every soul, it passed me by,
     Like the whizz of my cross-bow!



  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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