The Rime of the Ancient Mariner who are playing dice for the souls of the crew. With a roll of the dice, Death wins the lives of the crew members and Life-in-Death the life of the mariner, a prize she considers more valuable. Her name is a clue to the mariner's fate: he will endure a fate worse than death as punishment for his killing of the albatross. One by one, all of the crew members die, but the mariner lives on, seeing for seven days and nights the curse in the eyes of the crew's corpses, whose last expressions remain upon their faces. Eventually, this
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor son Samuel Coleridge Taylor after the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Alice lived with her father Benjamin Holmans and his family after she had the boy. Her father was a skilled farrier and was married to another woman than her mother; they had four daughters and at least one son. Alice and her father called her son Coleridge. The family lived in Croydon. In 1887 Alice Martin married George Evans, a railway worker. Their street had a railway line at its end. Taylor was brought up in Croydon, Surrey. There were numerous musicians on his mother's side and her father played