Quote#Nature
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
Quote bySamuel Taylor Coleridge · 1772–1834
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Kubla Khan (1797 or 1798).
English (original)
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.
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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