http://wordie.org/words/eftsoons Comments for the word 'Eftsoons' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/eftsoons#comments Beautiful word! I remember it from Coleridge's Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner: <br /> <br />He holds him with his skinny hand, <br />"There was a ship," quoth he. <br />"Hold off! unhand me, grey-beard loon!" <br />Eftsoons his hand dropt he. <br /> Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:11:23 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/eftsoons#comments http://wordie.org/words/eftsoons#comments "Which hearing young Stephen was a marvellous glad man and he averred that he who stealeth from the poor lendeth to the Lord for he was of a wild manner when he was drunken and that he was now in that taking it appeared eftsoons."<br />Joyce, Ulysses, 14 Fri, 19 Jan 2007 19:52:27 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/eftsoons#comments