The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 5


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Under the sun!  
Oh! it was pitiful!  
Near a whole city full,  
Home she had none.  
Sisterly, brotherly,  
Fatherly, motherly,  
Feelings had changed:  
Love, by harsh evidence,  
Thrown from its eminence;  
Even God's providence  
Seeming estranged.  
Take her up tenderly;  
Lift her with care;  
Fashion'd so slenderly,  
Young, and so fair!  
Ere her limbs frigidly  
Stiffen too rigidly,  
Decently,--kindly,--  
Smooth and compose them;  
And her eyes, close them,  
Staring so blindly!  
Dreadfully staring  
Through muddy impurity,  
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