Xanadu - A BRP Chinese Fantasy

Kubla Khan

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 there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1797

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