The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 5


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IV.  
They tell me (while they speak  
Of her "costly broider'd pall")  
That my voice is growing weak--  
That I should not sing at all--  
V.  
Or that my tone should be  
Tun'd to such solemn song  
So mournfully--so mournfully,  
That the dead may feel no wrong.  
VI.  
But she is gone above,  
With young Hope at her side,  
And I am drunk with love  
Of the dead, who is my bride.--  
VII.  
Of the dead--dead who lies  
All perfum'd there,  
With the death upon her eyes,  
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