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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.


But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted

Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!

A savage place! as holy and enchanted

As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted

By woman wailing for her demon-lover!

And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,

As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,

A mighty fountain momently was forced:

Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst

Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,

Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail:

And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever

It flung up momently the sacred river.

Five miles meandering with a mazy motion

Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,

Then reached the caverns measureless to man,

And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean:

And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far

Ancestral voices prophesying war!

The shadow of the dome of pleasure

Floated midway on the waves;

Where was heard the mingled measure

From the fountain and the caves.

It was a miracle of rare device,

A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!


A damsel with a dulcimer

In a vision once I saw:

It was an Abyssinian maid,

And on her dulcimer she played,

Singing of Mount Abora.

Could I revive within me

Her symphony and song,

To such a deep delight 'twould win me,

That with music loud and long,

I would build that dome in air,

That sunny dome! those caves of ice!

And all who heard should see them there,

And all should cry, Beware! Beware!

His flashing eyes, his floating hair!

Weave a circle round him thrice,

And close your eyes with holy dread,

For he on honey-dew hath fed,

And drunk the milk of Paradise.




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You can go nuts insane and when you are screwed up tight enough you can outsane again.



Oh yes we would publish some code down here:

Parrot feet (please do not count my nails) as used for the announcement of the badges and banner on the FrontPage. One can see clearly there are not much <norwegianblueparrot>s ( smiley - norwegianblueparrot ) in stock.

<LINK H2G2="A1046701">

  <PICTURE BLOB="B4882553" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="90" EMBED="Left"/>

</LINK>


The stocked parrot will show left of this like:







Well the actual member badge, a parrot hiding behind a shrubbery:

<LINK H2G2="A1046701">

  <PICTURE BLOB="B4882564" WIDTH="110" HEIGHT="110" EMBED="Right"/>

</LINK>


This one will show up as follows:


Notice the Right parameter for the EMBED attribute places the image on the right side of the text.







You can also use both

<LINK H2G2="A1046701">

  <PICTURE BLOB="B4882553" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="90" EMBED="Left"/>

  <PICTURE BLOB="B4882564" WIDTH="110" HEIGHT="110" EMBED="Right"/>

</LINK>


These are rather unwilling to not embed the text on their side. I have to use some seven newlines <BR/> to get the next paragraph below the image instead of embedded.







I prefer personal to use some tablets.

<TABLE WIDTH="100%" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="0">

 <TR>

  <TD ALIGN="Left">

   <LINK H2G2="A1046701">

    <PICTURE BLOB="B4882553" WIDTH="90" HEIGHT="90"/>

   </LINK>

  </TD>

  <TD ALIGN="Right">

   <LINK H2G2="A1046701">

    <PICTURE BLOB="B4882564" WIDTH="110" HEIGHT="110"/>

   </LINK>

  </TD>

 </TR>

</TABLE>


This will show as
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We are low on parrot stocks
You can still 'Embed' text.

Disadvantage: text will not flow above or below image.

Advantage: text and image do not collide and both will always be visible.
Memberer badge



Hmm, I start wondering if Samuel Coleridge would appreciate this addition.


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