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The Road to Xanadu IR
Xanadu or Shangdu, the idyllic summer capital of Kublai Khan's Mongolian empire. It was first described by Marco Polo in 1275, and made most famous to Westerners in Coleridge's famous poem "Kubla Khan". The opening stanza could describe this infra red scene:
"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round;
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery."
Alas, we are still in Tasmania.
The Road to Xanadu IR
Xanadu or Shangdu, the idyllic summer capital of Kublai Khan's Mongolian empire. It was first described by Marco Polo in 1275, and made most famous to Westerners in Coleridge's famous poem "Kubla Khan". The opening stanza could describe this infra red scene:
"In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.
So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round;
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
Enfolding sunny spots of greenery."
Alas, we are still in Tasmania.