...comparable in its way to the loneliness of Clytie, though a world dashed its mighty waves at her feet. Alone on a wide, wide sea, So lonely 'twas that God Himself Scarce seeme'd there to be. Can you not picture her ? Can you not imagine the dazed anxious face of the wilful beauty ? Can you...

...'twas, thut God himself Scarce seemed there to be. О sweeter thaii the niarriage-feaht, Tie Bweeter ket I — To walk together to the kirk, And all together pnvy, While each to hie great Father bend«, Old...

...the bride And bridemaids singing are : And hark ! the little vesper bell, Which biddeth me to prayer. O wedding-guest ! this soul hath been Alone on a wide,...himself Scarce seemed there to be. O sweeter than the marriage feast, 'Tis sweeter far to me To walk together to the kirk With a goodly company ! To walk...

...bride-maids singing are; Bell from the kirk. And hark the little vesper bell, Which biddeth me to prayer! O Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely 't was, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. O sweeter than the marriage-feast, T is sweeter...

...bride And bride-maids singing are: 595 And hark the little vesper bell, Which biddeth me to prayer! O Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely 'twas, that God himself eoo Scarce seemed there to be. O sweeter than the marriage-feast, 'Tis sweeter far to me, 577 of] not...

...shattered by suffering of a sort not unknown to Coleridge: the agony of an isolated and outcast soul, Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be (lines 631-33), and subjected to primordial forces so beyond his control as to cast doubt not only...

...feet straight down below the surface. A line from the "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" came to mind: "Alone on a wide wide sea, so lonely 'twas that God himself scarce seemed there to be." Samoa seemed a long way off. We rigged a cockpit awning and tried not to fight the problem. Motoring...

...creation around us with fresh eyes. And at times we can feel isolated in creation. As Coleridge wrote: Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely 'twas, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.1 In times of trouble and loneliness, have we not all drawn comfort from singing hymns and saying...

...There may be many that have lately been saying of themselves, with Coleridge's Ancient Mariner, . . . this soul hath been Alone on a wide, wide sea, So...'twas that God Himself Scarce seemed there to be. But I hope I have given good reason why they should now decide, again with the Mariner, To walk together...

...an exile endured a winter on the icy sea.46 Then again those lines from the 'Ancient Mariner': . . . this soul hath been Alone on a wide, wide sea; So...'twas, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. Certainly the Psalmist was right: Nisi Dominusfrustra. Without the Lord all frustrates. It is as if...