"Annabel Lee"
by Edgar Allan Poe

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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 kinsmen came
     And bore her away from me,
To shut her up, in a sepulchre
     In this kingdom by the sea.

 

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 the cloud, chilling
     And killing my ANNABEL LEE.

 
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