Annabel Lee  
                                 ---By Edgar Allan Poe
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It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know,
By the name of Annable Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me.
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She was a child and i was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love -- I and my Annabel Lee -- with a love that the winged seraphs of heaven coveted her and me.
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And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud by night,
Chilling my Annabel Lee,
So that her high-born kinsman came and bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre.
In this kingdom by the sea.
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The Angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me --
Yes! That was the reason (as all men know, in this kingdom by the sea).
That the wind came out of a cloud,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
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But our love it was stronger by far than the love of these who were older than we --
of many for wiser than we --
And neigher the angels in Heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the Sea,
Can ever disserver my soul from the soul of the beautiful Annabel Lee.
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For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee,
And the stars never rise but i see the bright eyes of the beautiful Annabel Lee,
And so, all the night - tide, i lie down by the side of my darling,
My darling, my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre, there by the Sea --
In her tomb by the side of the Sea.