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Anybody knows where this fragment is from?
Posted: 26 Aug 2008, 03:57
by manored
"Wave a circle round him thrice, And close your eyes with holy dread, For he on honey-dew hath fed, And drunk the milk of Paradise..."
I already found this on a Douglas Adams book, and a game... anybody knows where this was originally writen, and what it means?
Re: Anybody knows where this fragment is from?
Posted: 26 Aug 2008, 04:04
by SinbadEV
HURRAY GOOGLE!
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. 5
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round:
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills
Where blossom'd many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills, 10
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.
But O, that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted 15
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!
And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,
As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,
A mighty fountain momently was forced;
Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst 20
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 sacred river.
Five miles meandering with a mazy motion 25
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 Kubla heard from far
Ancestral voices prophesying war! 30
The shadow of the dome of pleasure
Floated midway on the waves;
Where was heard the mingled measure
From the fountain and the caves.
It was a miracle of rare device, 35
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!
A damsel with a dulcimer
In a vision once I saw:
It was an Abyssinian maid,
And on her dulcimer she play'd, 40
Singing of Mount Abora.
Could I revive within me,
Her symphony and song,
To such a deep delight 'twould win me,
That with music loud and long, 45
I would build that dome in air,
That sunny dome! those caves of ice!
And all who heard should see them there,
And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair! 50
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread,
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drunk the milk of Paradise.
Re: Anybody knows where this fragment is from?
Posted: 26 Aug 2008, 23:12
by manored
Ah, so that coleridge guy Douglas Adams mentions in the book is not a fictional character, but a real person... thank you :)
I always forget about google...
Re: 2
Posted: 04 Sep 2008, 14:42
by nemppu
Re: Anybody knows where this fragment is from?
Posted: 04 Sep 2008, 16:34
by SinbadEV
I'm just gonna go ahead and ban him...
edit:
odd... I don't have permission to do so...
Re: Anybody knows where this fragment is from?
Posted: 04 Sep 2008, 16:50
by clericvash
You can usually surround it with quotes in google and it will be found.
Re: 2
Posted: 05 Sep 2008, 03:25
by Muzic
Re: Anybody knows where this fragment is from?
Posted: 05 Sep 2008, 03:42
by det
manored wrote:Ah, so that coleridge guy Douglas Adams mentions in the book is not a fictional character, but a real person... thank you :)
I always forget about google...
It's OK, Google never forgets about you. They are always watching

Re: Anybody knows where this fragment is from?
Posted: 05 Sep 2008, 19:32
by manored
det wrote:manored wrote:Ah, so that coleridge guy Douglas Adams mentions in the book is not a fictional character, but a real person... thank you :)
I always forget about google...
It's OK, Google never forgets about you. They are always watching

That explains the artificial flower next to me :)
Re: Anybody knows where this fragment is from?
Posted: 05 Sep 2008, 21:56
by imbaczek
det wrote:It's OK, Google never forgets about you. They are always watching

who watches the watchmen?
Re: Anybody knows where this fragment is from?
Posted: 06 Sep 2008, 02:37
by Sheekel
Xanadu anyone?