"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"
[for the rest of the poem, see https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/kubla-khan]
Poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a leader of the British Romantic movement, was born on October 21, 1772, in Devonshire, England. Died 1834.
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