Through red forests that lean against the hills    I wandered with my heart in my hand    My cloak wound down to the shores of Cathay    Where the gold lay scattered on the sand    Night was young back before the dawn    Casting kisses at the day    Shipping the sea bestriding the earth    Down before Cathay.       The admirable deeds of Khubla Khan    we admired from the deck    Of our cedarwood ship    Observing the domes that prance from Mandalay    Where the dogs they sleep all the day    We gazed upon the Towers of Tyre    That rose coarse and spicey in the air    But we sailed up the coast to sidon    Where the gazes are so rare    Where the gazes are so rare      The ship shone its lamp across the silent air   That swirled before Cathay   And there on the sand that courts the amber sea    Our fair bodies we cast away   Night was young back before the dawn   Casting kisses at the day   Sipping the sea bestriing the earth   Down before Cathay.