ALBATROSS
1798
COLERIDGE ‘Ancient Mariner’ I st. 20, 11 st. 3.
‘God save thee, ancyent Marinere! From the fiends that plague thee thus—Why look'st thou so?’—with my cross bow I shot the Albatross … And I had done an hellish thing And it would work 'em woe: For all averr'd, I had kill'd the Bird That made the Breeze to blow.
1929
E. MARJORIBANKS
Life of Marshall Hall
29.
One day he did a terrible thing: he repeated the sin of the Ancient Mariner. ‘Saturday, Sept. 20th … Shot … an albatross measuring about 18 ft. from tip to tip.’
1934
Daily Mail
14 Apr. 34.
Around the Dornoch Firth ...