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samuel taylor coleridge: kubla khan - robert harris lyrics lyrics

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 thе hills
enfolding sunny spots of greenery

but oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
down the green hill athwart a cеdarn 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

- samuel taylor coleridge kubla khan lyrics

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