The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 1


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Long life to our king,  
Who knocked over a thousand so fine!  
Soho!--let us roar,  
He has given us more  
Red gallons of gore  
Than all Syria can furnish of wine!  
"
Do you hear that flourish of trumpets?"  
Yes: the king is coming! See! the people are aghast with admiration,  
and lift up their eyes to the heavens in reverence. He comes;--he is  
coming;--there he is!  
"Who?--where?--the king?--do not behold him--cannot say that I perceive  
him."  
Then you must be blind.  
"
Very possible. Still I see nothing but a tumultuous mob of idiots  
and madmen, who are busy in prostrating themselves before a gigantic  
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