Kubla Khan,or a Vision in a Dream.A Fragment. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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.................... .5 So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round: And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,1 Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills,.......................10 Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh!that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn2cover! A savage place!as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted...................15 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.......... 20 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. .25 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!..30 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,........ 35 A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice! A damsel with a dulcimer4 In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid. And on her dulcimer she played,....................... ..40Kubla Khan, or a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment. By Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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....................................................5 So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round: And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,1 Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills,.........................10 Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn 2cover! A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e’er beneath a waning 3moon was haunted.....................15 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...............................20 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..........................25 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!.......................................30 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,.............................................35 A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice! A damsel with a dulcimer4 In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian 5maid, And on her dulcimer she played,........................................40