The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 5


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Wherever they may be--  
O'er the strange woods--o'er the sea--  
Over spirits on the wing--  
Over every drowsy thing--  
And buries them up quite  
In a labyrinth of light--  
And then, how deep!--O, deep!  
Is the passion of their sleep.  
In the morning they arise,  
And their moony covering  
Is soaring in the skies,  
With the tempests as they toss,  
Like--almost any thing--  
Or a yellow Albatross.  
They use that moon no more  
For the same end as before--  
Videlicet a tent--  
Which I think extravagant:  
Its atomies, however,  
Into a shower dissever,  
Of which those butterflies,  
Of Earth, who seek the skies,  
And so come down again  
(
Never-contented things!)  
Have brought a specimen  
Upon their quivering wings.  
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