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From: Great Works of Literature
Date: 19920101
Author:Poe, Edgar Allan
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Lenore
Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll! - a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy De Vere, hast thou no tear? - weep now or never more! See! on yon drear and rigid bier low lies thy love, Lenore! Come! let the burial rite be read - the funeral song be sung! - An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young - A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.
'Wretches! ye loved her for her wealth and hated her for her pride, 'And when she fell in feeble health, ye blessed her - that she died! 'How shall ...
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