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...fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail, And mid those dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently...ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sunk in tumult in a lifeless ocean; And midst this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying...

...while still swollen with genial warmth. Genius, the master, cannot do without talent, the servant. " Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood...measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean : " To present of a sudden to the mind a signal thought, which springs unexpectedly but appropriately...

...Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail : And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and fier It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and...

...Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail ; And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and It flungup momently the sacred river, [ever Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and...

...Amid whose swift, half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain my fate, Wishing me like to one more rich in hope,...despising, Haply I think on thee, and then my state bell 848 WEIRD AND FANTASTIC. The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves ; Where was...

...Amid whose swift half-intermitted Burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail : And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the saered river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the saered river ran,...

...Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail ; And 'mid these dancing...motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reach'd the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean : And 'mid this tumult...

...of the language." Especially he dotes over these lines in it : " Five miles meandering with a mazj' motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,...heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war." It is not wonderful that a poet, who himself revels in melodious words, should go into ecstasies over...