On a sailing ship, on the ocean.
This is a line from the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner". The main character laments the irony his dehydration, as a thirst has plagued the ship and her crew for quite some time despite the fact that they're surrounded by a seemingly endless expanse of water. The salinity of seawater and the limits of the human kidney are the reason why one can only become more dehydrated by drinking seawater.
water, water, everywhere and not a drop to drink. :-)
drop drop everywhere but not single drop to drink!!
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge - The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
This quote is from the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, written by Samuel Coleridge.
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 1798
The famous line 'Water Water Everywhere' is a line from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's famous long poem 'The Rime Of The Ancient Mariner'. When a wicked mariner killed an Albatross that followed the ship with good luck, a curse fell on the ship and their luck reversed. The sailors began to drop down dead one by one and the good ship became a ghost ship. It reached unknown waters and strange things began to happen. The following stanza is included in this part: Water water everywhere And all the boards did shrink, Water water everywhere Nor any drop to drink.
Water, water, everywhere- nor any drop to drink. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner This water is not potable. The water is in the brown pot.
Water, water, everywhere- nor any drop to drink. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner This water is not potable. The water is in the brown pot.
The phrase is found in the second half of a verse in the poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. The verse is: Water, water, every where, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink.
The line "Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink" is from the poem "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This epic poem, published in 1798, tells the story of a sailor who is cursed after killing an albatross. The line reflects the irony of being surrounded by undrinkable saltwater while suffering from thirst.
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