The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 5


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Does it not? unto this palace of the Duke.  
The singer is undoubtedly beneath  
The roof of his Excellency--and perhaps  
Is even that Alessandra of whom he spoke  
As the betrothed of Castiglione,  
His son and heir.  
Pol. Be still!--it comes again!  
Voice  
"And is thy heart so strong  
(very faintly) As for to leave me thus  
Who hath loved thee so long  
In wealth and woe among?  
And is thy heart so strong  
As for to leave me thus?  
Say nay--say nay!"  
Bal. The song is English, and I oft have heard it  
In merry England--never so plaintively--  
Hist! hist! it comes again!  
Voice  
"Is it so strong  
(
more loudly) As for to leave me thus  
Who hath loved thee so long  
In wealth and woe among?  
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