The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves; Where was heard the mingled measure From the fountain and the caves. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

And looking to the Heaven, that bends above you, How oft! I bless the Lot, that made me love you.

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.

But alas! the exceptions prove the rule. For who will dare to force his way out of the crowd,—not of the mere vulgar,—but of the vain and banded aristocracy of intellect, and presume to join the almost supernatural beings that stand by themselves aloof?