Cosmic Edges

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Romantic Chasm

Romantic Chasm

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Jun 07, 2023
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Romantic Chasm
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But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted
Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!
A savage place! as holy and enchanted
As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted
By woman wailing for her demon-lover!

—Coleridge, “Kubla Khan”

Pennsylvania 7 June 2023, morning.

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