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Annabel Lee

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 Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other thought     Than to love and be loved by me. I  was a child and  she  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. And this was the reason that, long ago,     In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling     My beautiful Annabel Lee; So that her highborn 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, ...