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First Line: Sad spirit, swathed in brief mortality
Last Line: And blast the bliss of heaven forevermore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Poe, Edgar Allan (1809-1849)


Sad spirit, swathed in brief mortality,
Of fate and fervid fantasies the prey,
Till the remorseless demon of dismay
O'erwhelmed thee -- lo! thy doleful destiny
Is chanted in the requiem of the sea
And shadowed in the crumbling ruins gray
That beetle o'er the tarn. Here all the day
The Raven broods on solitude and thee;
Here gloats the moon at midnight, while the Bells
Tremble, but speak not lest thy Ulalume
Should startle from her slumbers, or Lenore
Hearken the love-forbidden tone that tells
The shrouded legend of thine early doom
And blast the bliss of heaven forevermore.





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