...behind him' (The White Seal, The Jungle Book, 1 894). Compare Coleridge, The Ancient Mariner 1 2.8—30: The death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue, and white. 15, 17 name . . . teeth of flame: Wilde rhymes 'teeth of flame' with 'name', The Ballad of Reading...

...the cell that has evolved to enable survival of A. tamarensisin deep coastal waters. Bioluminescence About, about, in reel and rout The death-fires danced...like a witch's oils Burnt green, and blue, and white Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Mariners from early times have marveled at...

...best acquainted. — PLINY THE ELDER, quoted in the Challenger Report The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea. — SAMUEL COLERIDGE, quoted in the Challenger Report On the floor of the deep sea, the cold and lightless,...

...boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Christ! That ever this should be! Yea, slimy things did crawl...like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue and white. And some in dreams assured were Of the Spirit that plagued us so; Nine fathoms deep he had followed...

...Ancient Mariner, it is easy to imagine that opium played some part in the creation of this unusual poem: Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy...like a witch's oils, Burnt green, and blue and white. The literati were certainly not the only well-known users of opium and other hard drugs as the following...

...there is: "Water, water everywhere, / Nor any drop to drink" and "The very deep did rot: O Christ! / That ever this should be! / Yea slimy things did crawl with legs / Upon the slimy sea." Then Part V begins this way: 'O sleep! it is a gende thing, Beloved from pole to pole! To Mary Queen...

...below the Line that struck her company as putrid.3 Hence the poet's The very deep did rot: 0 Christ! That ever this should be! Yea slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy sea All this, while Beyond the shadow of the ship I watched the water-snakes: They moved in tracks of shining...

...water, every where Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: O Girisi! That ever this should be! uj Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy...death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, 130 Burnt green, and blue and white. A Spirit had followed them; one of the invisible inhabitants of...

...water, every where Nor any drop to drink. The very deep did rot: 0 Christ! That ever this should be! Is, Yea, slimy things did crawl with legs Upon the slimy...death-fires danced at night; The water, like a witch's oils, s,o Burnt green, and blue and white. A Spirit had followed them; one of the invisible inhabitants of...

...tropical Pacific, which was so very exotic, continues in all editions to reek of the village churchyard: About, about, in reel and rout, The Death-fires danced...like a witch's oils, Burnt green and blue and white. The OED gives no previous authority for death-fires, a kind of will-of-the-wisp seen over graves, already...