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"The other was a softer voice,
As soft as honey-dew;[49]
Quoth he, 'The man hath penance done,
And penance more will do.'"
PART VI
_First Voice_
"'But tell me, tell me! speak again, 410
Thy soft response renewing--
What makes that ship drive on so fast?
What is the ocean doing?'"
_Second Voice_
"'Still as a slave before his lord,
The ocean hath no blast; 415
His great bright eye most silently
Up to the Moon is cast--
"'If he may know[50] which way to go;
For she guides him smooth or grim.[51]
See, brother, see! how graciously 420
She looketh down on him.'"
_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. 425
"'Fly, brother, fly! more high, more high!
Or we shall be belated:
For slow and slow that ship will go,
When the Mariner's trance is abated.'
"I woke, and we were sailing on 430
As in a gentle weather:
'T was night, calm night, the moon was high;
The dead men stood together.
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