The golden shadow
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Of the pleasure dome
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Floated midway on the waves
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Of the river Alph
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"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
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A stately pleasure dome decree...
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Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
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Down to a sunless sea
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So twice
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Fice miles of fertile ground with towers and walls
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were girdled round
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And here were gardens bright
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With sinuous... rills
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And here were forests, forests as
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ancient as the hills
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Enfolding sunny, spots of greenery"
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A mystic reign on the Asian coast was located
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A miracle of rare device...
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A sunny pleasure-dome was built
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Over the winding enchanting icy caves
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The silence ruled
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among the sacred lands
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Of Xanadu
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From a raging dance of rocks,
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since the dawn of Time
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It flings up the holy turbid stream
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In this ageless tumult, Kubla Khan heard from
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Far Ancestral voices prophesying... war!
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A savage place!
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...a vision in a dream!
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And beyond wood and dale there was
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An endless abyss where the river
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Would sank in turmoil to a lifeless ocean
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Alight by the shine of
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A feeble waning moon
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Lost in the sky
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...and still some whispers in the midnight breeze
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remind us again the beauty of Xanadu!
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Xanadu (A Vision In A Dream)
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| Stormlord |
