Notes: I layered a lot of images on top of one another to depict as much of the scene as I could from the first stanza of the poem Kubla Khan, written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
That stanza is pasted below.
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.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173247
Old Spice Mario Theme dated: 2015-09-16 05:15:35 PM