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| In Xanadu did Kubla Khan | |
| Where Alph, the sacred river, ran | |
| So twice five miles of fertile ground | |
| And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills | |
| And here were forests ancient as the hills | |
| But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted | |
| A savage place! as holy and enchanted | |
| And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething | |
| A mighty fountain momently was forced | |
| Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail | |
| And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever | |
| Five miles meandering with a mazy motion | |
| Then reached the caverns measureless to man | |