{"id":29,"date":"2014-09-03T07:50:47","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T07:50:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/abora.co.za\/?page_id=29"},"modified":"2023-11-08T11:27:59","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T09:27:59","slug":"kubla-khan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/abora.co.za\/?page_id=29","title":{"rendered":"Kubla Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"

BY\u00a0SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

In Xanadu did Kublai Khan<\/p>\n

A stately pleasure-dome decree:<\/p>\n

Where Alph, the sacred river, ran<\/p>\n

Through caverns measureless to man<\/p>\n

Down to a sunless sea.<\/p>\n

So twice five miles of fertile ground<\/p>\n

With walls and towers were girdled round;<\/p>\n

And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,<\/p>\n

Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;<\/p>\n

And here were forests ancient as the hills,<\/p>\n

Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted<\/p>\n

Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!<\/p>\n

A savage place! as holy and enchanted<\/p>\n

As e\u2019er beneath a waning moon was haunted<\/p>\n

By woman wailing for her demon-lover!<\/p>\n

And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,<\/p>\n

As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,<\/p>\n

A mighty fountain momently was forced:<\/p>\n

Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst<\/p>\n

Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,<\/p>\n

Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher\u2019s flail:<\/p>\n

And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever<\/p>\n

It flung up momently the sacred river.<\/p>\n

Five miles meandering with a mazy motion<\/p>\n

Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,<\/p>\n

Then reached the caverns measureless to man,<\/p>\n

And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean;<\/p>\n

And \u2019mid this tumult Kubla heard from far<\/p>\n

Ancestral voices prophesying war!<\/p>\n

The shadow of the dome of pleasure<\/p>\n

Floated midway on the waves;<\/p>\n

Where was heard the mingled measure<\/p>\n

From the fountain and the caves.<\/p>\n

It was a miracle of rare device,<\/p>\n

A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

A damsel with a dulcimer<\/p>\n

In a vision once I saw:<\/p>\n

It was an Abyssinian maid<\/p>\n

And on her dulcimer she played,<\/p>\n

Singing of Mount Abora.<\/p>\n

Could I revive within me<\/p>\n

Her symphony and song,<\/p>\n

To such a deep delight \u2019twould\u00a0win<\/a>\u00a0me,<\/p>\n

That with music loud and long,<\/p>\n

I would build that dome in air,<\/p>\n

That sunny dome! those caves of ice!<\/p>\n

And all who heard should see them there,<\/p>\n

And all should cry, Beware! Beware!<\/p>\n

His flashing eyes, his floating hair!<\/p>\n

Weave a circle round him thrice,<\/p>\n

And close\u00a0your<\/a>\u00a0eyes with holy dread<\/p>\n

For he on honey-dew hath fed,<\/p>\n

And drunk the milk of Paradise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BY\u00a0SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment.\u00a0 In Xanadu did Kublai 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 … <\/p>\n

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