...incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green...thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently wasforeed: Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or...

...rock, deep in an ancient wood. Its leap is like that of the fountain in Coleridge's " Kubla Khan:" " And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,...breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced." The torrent is intercepted by a dam, which turns into the mouth of the aqueduct a supply sufficient...

...are dimming meadows, The stream a silver band. -Joseph von Eichendorff (d. 1857), "At Night" But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green...enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted - Coleridge, "Kubla Kahn" Od und leer das Meer [Void and empty, the sea] - TS Eliot, "The Waste Land"...

...stregato, quale mai sotto luna calante fu turbato da una donna che invocava gemendo il suo demone amante!" ("...as holy and enchanted / As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted / By woman wailing for her demon lover!"). Nota Per le informazioni storiche rimandiamo a David Hackett Fischer, Alhion's Seed:...

...incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, 10 Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green...enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted 1 5 By woman wailing for her demon-lover! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As...

...incense-bearing tree; io And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage piace! as holy and enchanted 15 As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her...

...rolling along, down to the sunless sea. No, that was Alph, the sacred river, wasn't it? In Xanadu: A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted . . . How sinister everything seemed by moonlight! Not a sound from the boat-house. Daisy pushed the...

...propelled and blocked. Yet what is constantly present is a panoply of unattributed, imaginary, sounds: "as e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted / By woman wailing for her demon-lover!"; "with ceaseless turmoil seething / As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing"; "And 'mid...

...incense-bearing tree; 10 And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn coven! A savage place! as holy and enchanted 15 As e'em beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman...

...circle the ten miles of enclosed fertile ground, to link the gardens to the forests, to follow the "deep romantic chasm which / slanted down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover." Once we arrive in this chasm, we find a fountain bursting huge fragments in the other direction. And...