In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, t…

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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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. ✨ Kubla Khan l. 1 (1816)
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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. ✨ Kubla Khan l. 1 (1816)

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