The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 5


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(The red fire of their heart)  
With speed that may not tire  
And with pain that shall not part--  
*
There is found, in the Rhone, a beautiful lily of the  
Valisnerian kind. Its stem will stretch to the length of  
three or four feet--thus preserving its head above water  
in the swellings of the river.  
** The Hyacinth.  
*** It is a fiction of the Indians, that Cupid was first  
seen floating in one of these down the river Ganges--and  
that he still loves the cradle of his childhood.  
**** And golden vials full of odors which are the prayers of the saints.  
--Rev. St. John.  
Who livest--that we know--  
In Eternity--we feel--  
But the shadow of whose brow  
What spirit shall reveal?  
Tho' the beings whom thy Nesace,  
Thy messenger hath known  
Have dream'd for thy Infinity  
*A model of their own--  
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