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“The Happiest Day.” | Poems by Edgar Allan Poe · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: The happiest day, the happiest hour. My seared and blighted
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  Speaker 1: heart hath known the highest hope of pride and power
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  Speaker 1: I feel, hath flown of power, said I, yes, such
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  Speaker 1: I ween, But they have vanished long alas the visions
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  Speaker 1: of my youth have been. But let them pass, and pride,
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  Speaker 1: what have I now? With thee another brow may even
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  Speaker 1: inherit the venom thou hast poured on me be still
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  Speaker 1: my spirit, the happiest day, the happiest hour mine eyes
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  Speaker 1: shall see have ever seen the brightest glance of pride
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  Speaker 1: and power I feel have been? But were that hope
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  Speaker 1: of pride and power now offered with the pain? Even
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  Speaker 1: then I felt that brightest hour I would not live again,
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  Speaker 1: for on its wing was dark alloy, and as it
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  Speaker 1: fluttered fell and a powerful to destroy a soul that
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  Speaker 1: knew it well