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At the end of Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust, Tod Hackett sees a sign quoting the first sentence of this poem near the Persian Palace Theatre. "Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail" from a "mighty fountain" in this poem, which opens by describing "twenty five miles of fertile ground." The narrator advises that "all should cry, ‘Beware, Beware!'" as they see the title character's "His flashing eyes, his floating hair," while its narrator recalls hearing "a damsel with a dulcimer…singing of Mount Abora" as well. Allegedly interrupted by a visitor from Porlock, this is, FTP, which poem, whose title character did "a stately pleasure-dome decree" in Xanadu, written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
At the end of Nathanael West's The Day of the Locust, Tod Hackett sees a sign quoting the first sentence of this poem near the Persian Palace Theatre.
“{Kubla Khan}”