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Chapter 9

ancient mariner. O, Kinch, thou art in peril. Get thee a breechpad.

Manner of Oxenford.

Day.

Wheelbarrow sun over arch of bridge.

A dark back went before them.

  • Step of a pard,
  • down,
  • out by the gateway,
  • under portcullis barbs.

They followed.

Offend me still. Speak on.

Kind air defined the coigns of houses in Kildare street. No birds. Frail from the housetops two plumes of smoke ascended, pluming, and in a flaw of softness softly were blown.

Cease to strive. Peace of the druid priests of Cymbeline, hierophantic: from wide earth an altar.

Laud we the gods And let our crooked smokes climb to their nostrils From our bless’d altars.

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