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    The Old Spaceman's Rime
    The Old Spaceman's Rime
    The Old Spaceman's Rime
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    The Old Spaceman's Rime

    By Simon Crowhurst

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    A reworking of Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner", with apologies to Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateJul 17, 2020
    ISBN9781716731532
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      The Old Spaceman's Rime - Simon Crowhurst

      The Rime of the aged Spaceman

      Copyright © 2020 by Simon John Crowhurst

      All rights reserved. This book or any portion thereof may not be reproduced or used in any manner whatsoever without the express written permission of the publisher except for the use of brief quotations in a book review or scholarly journal.

      First Printing: 2020

      ISBN <978-1-71673-153-2>

      Buxton Book Co.

      193 Chesterton Road

      Cambridge, UK CB4 1AH

      The Rime of the aged Spaceman

      Part I

      As the eternal vacuum

      Tugs at Earth's captive air

      So space calls to the human race

      To break the planet's snare;

      A world

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