Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(1772-1834)

"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Down to a sunless sea
...
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
(1772-1834)
KUBLA KHAN

"Laudanum gave me repose, not sleep ; but you, I believe, know how devine that repose is, what a spot of enchantment, a green spot of fountain and flowers and trees in ther very heart of a waste of sands!"
George Coleridge
(1772-1834)

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