All black and bare I ween;
Jet black and bare, save where with rust,
Of mouldy damps and charnel crust
They were patch’d with purple and green.”
The First Part, which is that most frequently parodied, is given below:—
Part I
It is an ancient Mariner,
And he stoppeth one of three.
“By thy long grey beard and glittering eye,
Now wherefore stopp’st thou me?