A Xanadu Kubla Khan volle
un’imponente dimora di piacere,
dove Alfeo, il sacro fiume, trascorre
caverne ad occhio umano smisurate
e s’immerge in un mare senza sole.[In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Trough caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea]
Incipit
Kubla Khan