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| ANNABEL LEE. |
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| 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; |
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| And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me. |
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| I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea: |
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| But we loved with a love that was more than love — |
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| I and my ANNABEL LEE; |
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| With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. |
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| 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; |
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| 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. |
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| The angels, not half so happy in heaven, Went envying her and me — |
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| 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. |
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| But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we — |
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| Of many far wiser than we — |
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| 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: |
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| For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE; |
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| And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful ANNABEL LEE; |
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| 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. |