X is for Xanadu

Xanadu, that fabled land which Coleridge immortalized in his poem Kubla Khan.In Xanadu did Kubla KhanA stately pleasure-dome decree:Where Alph, the sacred river, ranThrough caverns measureless to manDown to a sunless sea.The land is magical:A savage place! as holy and enchantedAs e'er beneath a waning moon was hauntedBy woman wailing for her demon-lover.The poet continues:The …