...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...

...words, and yet how they swell and become translucent with the glow that lives in them. Or, again:— Five miles meandering with a mazy motion, Through...measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean. Wordsworth has it wherever he is raised as it were out of himself:— The Rainbow comes and goes, And...

...words, and yet how they swell and become translucent with the glow that lives in them. Or, again: — Five miles meandering with a mazy motion, Through...wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverne measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean. "Wordsworth has it wherever he...

...Amid whose swift, half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail ; And 'mid these dancing...man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean ; And 'raid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war. The shadow of the dome of...

...Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea. " And again : " Five miles meandering with a mazy motion, Through...lifeless ocean ; And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard fromfar Ancestral voices prophesying war ! " This short poem is a very triumph of art Every line is...

...which flies the higher pitch. He proceeded a long time in this manner. He has just this moment gone. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion through wood and dale the sacred river ran. I thought I heard some minutes past sounds as of a castle-bell. The island lies nine leagues away....

...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, 28 KUBLA KHAN. Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tutriult to a lifeless ocean...

...beauty. To match this line, and the three before it we may quote from Coleridge's Kobla Khan : — " Five miles, meandering with a mazy motion Through...to man And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean." And from Lander's Uelnr (wbich Shelley so loved), concerning a sea-shell when held to the ear : — " And...

...gazed at the moon in the azure sky and the silent flow of the muddy waters, I thought of " Kubla Khan." "Five miles, meandering with a mazy 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 the tumult...

...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...this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophecying war ! The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves ; Where was heard...