“The fair breeze blew, the white foam flew,
The furrows followed free;
We were the first that ever burst
Into that silent sea.”

The Ancient Mariner. Part II, Stanza 5.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge [1772-1834]

From, Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations by John Bartlett.
Published by Little, Brown and Company, 1955. Page 420.

To read the full poem: Poets.org.