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Part VII of the poem. The following is excerpted from Coleridge's gloss:

The Hermit of the Wood approacheth the ship with wonder. The ship suddenly sunketh. The ancient Mariner is saved in the Pilot's boat. The ancient Mariner earnestly entreateth the Hermit to shrieve him; and the penance of his life falls on him. And ever and anon throughout his future life an agony constraineth him to travel from land to land; and to teach by his won example, love and reverence to all things that God made and loveth.