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The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrow followed free:
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.
The longest and one of the most famous poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, in which a sailor relates the story of a voyage, and the horrors that befell on it as punishment for his shooting the albatross that had served as a guide to the ship. If you've read much English literature, you'll probably recognize many lines, phrases and references you've seen other authors make to this famous ballad.
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