The Wedding-Guest sat on a stone:
He cannot choose but hear;
And thus spake on that ancient man,
The bright-eyed Mariner.

from Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Rime Of The Ancient Mariner on Rap Genius

Meaning

The Mariner’s story begins…

(with such a charming rime of a preamble)

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