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makes the supernatural natural." It invests the mountain's bosky 

 brow with the light that never was on sea or land. It offers 

 whatever qualities are conspicuous in the youth of the world. It 

 sings of old unhappy far-off things and battles long ago. It 

 sails with the youthful Ulysses from Ithaca and Penelope : and 

 when the delight of battle on the ringing plains of windy Troy is 

 long past, and the aged king frets to oppose once more free heart 

 and free forehead to the thunder and the sunshine, Romance is 

 still with him as he voyages towards the sunset and the baths of 

 the western stars. 



Is this the face that launched a thousand ships 

 And built the topless towers of Ilium ? 



There is Romance for you. 



Sweet Helen make me immortal with a kiss. 



'yiere is Romance for you. 



Beyond all outer charting we sailed where none have sailed, 

 And saw the land-lights burning on islands none have hailed. 

 Our hair stood up for wonder, but when the night was done 

 There danced the deep to windward, blue-empty 'neath the sun. 



There is Romance for you. Shall I go on? 



Strange consorts rode beside us, and brought us evil luck, 



The witch-fire climbed our channels, and flared on vane and truck ; 



Till through the red tornado that lashed us nigh to blind 



We saw the Dutchman plunging, full canvas, head to wind. 



We've heard the midnight-headsman, that calls the black deep down. 

 Ay ! thrice we've heard the swimmer, the thing that may not drown. 

 On frozen bunt and gasket, the sleet-cloud drave her hosts, 

 When, manned by more than signed with us, we passed the Isle of 

 Ghosts. 



And north amid the hummocks, a biscuit toss below, 

 We met the silent shallop, that frighted whalers know. 

 For, down a cruel ice-lane, that opened as he sped. 

 We saw dead Henry Hudson steer North by West his dead. 



Romance sings of a world in which arises Alph the sacred 

 river, where are the gardens and forests of Kubla-Khan, and the 

 deep romantic chasm holy and enchanted", and the dome of 



