Ah, we safely may trust to its gleaming, That cannot but guide us aright, Since it flickers up to Heaven through the night.' VIII Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her, And tempted her out of her gloom- But were stopped by the door of a tomb- And I said, 'What is written, sweet sister, IX Then my heart it grew ashen and sober As the leaves that were crisped and sere, On this very night of last year, Well I know, now, this dank tarn of Auber,- KUBLA KHAN A VISION IN A DREAM IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round: But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, The shadow of the dome of pleasure Where was heard the mingled measure It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice! A damsel with a dulcimer In & vision once I saw : It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora. To such a deep delight 'twould win me I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome! Those caves of ice! And drunk the milk of Paradise. L'ALLEGRO S. T. COLERIDGE HENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy! Find out some uncouth cell Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings And the night-raven sings; There under ebon shades, and low-brow'd rocks As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell. But come, thou Goddess fair and free, In heaven yclept Euphrosyne, And by men, heart-easing Mirth, |