...finally I viewed the ocean green, And looked far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen—- Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head ; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close...

...really do exist. It turns us all into children, frightened to watch yet too fascinated to stop watching, Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind...

...rim dips; the stars rush out; At one stride comes the dark. 2448 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner' turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind...

...lit, and out of the hissing speakers, a man's voice began to intone, rising above the leafy sibilance: Like one, that on a lonesome road, Doth walk in fear and dread . . . Virginia jumped back, and the keyboard clattered off the desk, swinging by its cord. She dropped...

...us, hoping for scraps, and I trod carefully in the shadows of boats and deck buildings. Like one, who on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful judge Doth close behind...

...old Horny," he said to the dead tree. And once, as dusk pursued him homeward, he began repeating: As one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind...

...and silence, nowhere and no whither, You are conscious of nothing but the presence of a vague terror: Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread," eerie and shuddering with the intuition that something fearful is at hand. You feel that all creation...

...more I viewed the ocean green. And looked far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen — Like one, that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows, a frightful fiend Doth close behind...

...humiliation. Bion quotes Coleridge's Rime of the Ancient Mariner as a representation of this state of mind: Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread; And having once turned round walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind...

...and to look, haunter-haunted, pursuer-pursued, into the green corrupted Hell Face of malignant death: Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head, Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind...