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And all should cry, Beware! Beware!
His flashing eyes, his floating hair!
Weave a circle round him thrice,
And close your eyes with holy dread:
For he on honey-dew hath fed,
And drank the milk of Paradise.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge on genius

Kubla Khan (1816), Kubla Khan

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