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Quotation from Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!”

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (spoken by The speaker)

Kubla Khan, Lines 29-30 (Gutenberg #29090: The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Ernest Hartley Coleridge (Oxford, 1912))

A threat breaks into the paradise.

Citation: "And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war!" — Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Kubla Khan, Lines 29-30 (Gutenberg #29090: The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ed. Ernest Hartley Coleridge (Oxford, 1912)). (id kubla-khan-q2)

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