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My recitation of the classic poem "Kubla Khan or A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment", written by English Romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1797 and published in 1816.

"Kubla Khan" is famous for being a poem of magic and wonder, rich in vivid supernatural imagery that was inspired by an opium-influenced dream.
It begins with these famous opening lines: "In Xanadu did Kubla Khan a stately pleasure dome decree".

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"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.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round

And here were gardens bright with sinuous rills
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
And folding 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 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 drank the milk of Paradise.