And ice, mast-high, came floating by
As green as emerald,
from Samuel Taylor Coleridge – Rime Of The Ancient Mariner on Rap Genius
Meaning
The ice could possibly be green due to algae. It could also just be ethereal imagery building up to the more…acid trippy events in the poem.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_algae
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