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"Annabel Lee"

It was many and many a year ago,
�� In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
�� By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
�� Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
�� In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love-
�� I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
�� Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
�� In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
�� My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
�� And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
�� In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
�� Went envying her and me-
Yes!- that was the reason (as all men know,
�� In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
�� Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
�� Of those who were older than we-
�� Of many far wiser than we-
And neither the angels in heaven above,
�� Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
�� Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
�� Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
�� Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
�� In the sepulchre there by the sea,
�� In her tomb by the sounding sea.

~ Edgar Allen Poe