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Who wrote “Water, Water, everywhere/Nor any drop to drink”?

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who wrote water water everywhere nor any drop to drink

Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote “Water, Water, everywhere/Nor any drop to drink” in his poem “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” (1798).

The lines are often misquoted as “and not a drop to drink.”

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