The public is then informed that all of a sudden, because 'The glorious Sun was rising', the comrades on board conclude that it it was indeed the bird // Who (had) brought the fog and mist. As the marginal notes specify, by siding with the Mariner, these sailors “(made themselves) complicit in the crime.” This fickle nature of these shipmates could be seen as a sly attempt by Coleridge to be satirical, challenging authority by highlighting the fact that everyone is always looking for someone to blame for the world's misfortune, but we can't know who really. is from