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Latest revision as of 17:34, 23 December 2021
or, a Vision in a Dream
A Fragment
- In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
- A stately pleasure dome decree :
- Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
- Through caverns measureless to man
- Down to a sunless sea.
- So twice five miles of fertile ground
- With walls and towers were girdled round :
- And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills;
- Where blossomed many an incense bearing tree ;
- And here were forests ancient as the hills,
- Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
- But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
- Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover !
- A savage place ! as holy and enchanted
- As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted
- By woman wailing for her demon lover !
- And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
- As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
- A mighty fountain momently was forced :
- Amid whose swift half intermitted burst
- Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
- Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail :
- And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever
- It flung up momently the sacred river.
- Five miles meandering with a mazy motion
- Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,
- "Then reached the caverns measureless to man,
- And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean :
- And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far
- Ancestral voices prophesying war !
- The shadow of the dome of pleasure
- Floated midway on the waves ;
- Where was heard the mingled measure
- From the fountain and the caves.
- It was a miracle of rare device,
- A sunny pleasure dome with caves of ice !
- A damsel with a dulcimer
- In a vision once I saw :
- It was an Abyssinian maid,
- And on her dulcimer she played,
- Singing of Mount Abora.
- Could I revive within me
- Her symphony and song,
- To such a deep delight 'twould win me,
- That with music loud and long,
- I would build that dome in air,
- That sunny dome ! those caves of ice !
- And all who heard should see them there,
- And all should cry, Beware ! Beware !
- His flashing eyes, his floating hair !
- Weave a circle round him thrice,
- And close your eyes with holy dread,
- For he on honey dew hath fed,
- And drunk the milk of Paradise.
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