Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~ S. M. Hart

Alberta Falls Trail, 2021

“Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,

Then reached the caverns measureless to man,

And ‘mid this tumult Kubla heard from afar

Ancestral voices prophesying war!

His flashing eyes, his floating hair!

Weave a circle round him thrice,

And close your eyes with holy dread,

For he on honeydew hath fed,

And drunk the milk of Paradise.”

Kubla Khan 1816