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Water water everywhere Nor any drop to drink?

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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.

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