...Marco Polo has left us a splendid description of the imperial palace at Xanadu, or Kambalu, — " Where twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round." Tbe picture is, indeed, dazzling and marvellous ; yet it does not appear, in any essential particular,...

...which he afterward committed to writing. The poem is entitled Kubla Khan, and begins as follows : " In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree ; Where Alph, the sacrtd river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea." It is evident from such...

...fable of the underground course of Alpheus that Coleridge alludes to in his poem of Kubla Khan: — " 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." In one of Moore's juvenile poems he thus...

...lord, standing by to make way for it. Now for the architecture and landscape gardening of the po^ : — In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree,...miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girded round : And here were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing...

...KUBLA KHAN. XUGGESTED TO THE AUTHOR BY A PASSAGE IK FURCHAS's PILGRIMAGE. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan1 A stately pleasure-dome decree. Where Alph, the sacred...ground With walls and towers were girdled round ; And here were gardens bright with sinuous rills. Where blossom'd many an incense-bearing tree ; And here...

...the duction of Biuldhism.^.Efei'm Years Ruins, by Mr. KXIGHTON, in the in Ceylon, vol. i. ch. xp 207. And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree, And forests, ancient as the hills, Enfolding- sunny spots of greenery." ' On reaching the grass-grown street...

...introduction of Buddhism. — J'llcmt Year* in fpi/foiif vol. i. ch. x. ]>. 207. 612 THE RUINED CITIES. And there were gardens, bright with sinuous rills. Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree, And forests, ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery." ' On reaching the grass-grown street...

...Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alpha, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles...there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossom'd many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny...

...Night and Day go by ; And stars move calmly overhead. ALLINQHAM. jmn ; or, g. Vision in a A FRAQMENT. IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree...there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossom'd many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny...

...palace of Kubla Khan, " Where twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were gilded round ; And there were gardens, bright with sinuous...Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And forests, ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots,of greenery." The writer says : " That which renders...