The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 5


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Command me, sir! what wouldst thou have me do?  
At thy behest I will shake off that nature  
Which from my, forefathers I did inherit,  
Which with my mother's milk I did imbibe,  
And be no more Politian, but some other.  
Command me, sir!  
Bal. To the field, then--to the field--  
To the senate or the field.  
Pol. Alas! Alas!  
There is an imp would follow me even there!  
There is an imp hath followed me even there!  
There is--what voice was that?  
Bal. I heard it not.  
I heard not any voice except thine own,  
And the echo of thine own.  
Pol. Then I but dreamed.  
Bal. Give not thy soul to dreams: the camp--the court,  
Befit thee--Fame awaits thee--Glory calls--  
And her the trumpet-tongued thou wilt not hear  
In hearkening to imaginary sounds  
And phantom voices.  
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