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Anabell Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

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 Anabell Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to be loved and to 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 Anabell 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 Anabell Lee;
So that her kinsmen came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half as 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 Anabell 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 Anabell Lee.

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Anabell Lee;
And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Anabell Lee.
And so, all the night-tide, my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea-
In her tomb by the side of the sea