Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold:…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold. ✨ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner l. 190 (1798)
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Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold. ✨ The Rime of the Ancient Mariner l. 190 (1798)

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