The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 5


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Since it flickers up to Heaven through the night."  
Thus I pacified Psyche and kissed her,  
And tempted her out of her gloom--  
And conquered her scruples and gloom;  
And we passed to the end of the vista--  
But were stopped by the door of a tomb--  
By the door of a legended tomb:--  
And I said--"What is written, sweet sister,  
On the door of this legended tomb?"  
She replied--"Ulalume--Ulalume--  
'T is the vault of thy lost Ulalume!"  
Then my heart it grew ashen and sober  
As the leaves that were crisped and sere--  
As the leaves that were withering and sere--  
And I cried--"It was surely October  
On this very night of last year,  
That I journeyed--I journeyed down here!--  
That I brought a dread burden down here--  
On this night, of all nights in the year,  
Ah, what demon has tempted me here?  
Well I know, now, this dim lake of Auber--  
This misty mid region of Weir:--  
Well I know, now, this dank tarn of Auber--  
This ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir."  
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