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“In Youth I Have Known One” | Edgar Allan Poe Poems · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: How often we forget all time when lone admiring Nature's
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  Speaker 1: universal throne, her woods, her wilds, her mountains, the intense
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  Speaker 1: reply of hers to our intelligence. One in youth, I
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  Speaker 1: have known one with whom the earth, in secret communing held,
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  Speaker 1: is he with it in daylight and in beauty from
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  Speaker 1: his birth, whose fervid, flickering torch of life was lit
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  Speaker 1: from the sun and stars. Whence he had drawn forth
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  Speaker 1: a passionate light such for his spirit was fit. And
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  Speaker 1: yet that spirit knew not in the hour of its
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  Speaker 1: own fervor what had ore at power. Two. Perhaps it
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  Speaker 1: may be that my mind is wrought to a fever
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  Speaker 1: by the moonbeam that hangs o'er. But I will half
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  Speaker 1: believe that wild light, fraught with more of sovereignty than
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  Speaker 1: ancient lore hath ever told. Or is it of a
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  Speaker 1: thought the unembodied essence, and no more that with a
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  Speaker 1: quickening spell, doth Oor's pass, as do of the night
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  Speaker 1: time or the summer grass. Three, doth o'er us pass
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  Speaker 1: When as the expanding eye to the loved object, so
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  Speaker 1: the tear to the lid will start, which lately slept
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  Speaker 1: in apathy. And yet it need not be that object
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  Speaker 1: hid from us in life, but common, which doth lie
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  Speaker 1: each hour before us, but then only bid with a
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  Speaker 1: strained sound, as of a harp string broken to awake us.
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  Speaker 1: Is a symbol and a token four of what another
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  Speaker 1: world shall be, and given in beauty by our God
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  Speaker 1: to those alone who otherwise would fall from life in heaven,
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  Speaker 1: drawn by their heart's passion. And that tone, that high
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  Speaker 1: tone of the spirit which hath striven, though not with faith,
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  Speaker 1: with godliness, whose throne with desperate energy, half beaten down,
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  Speaker 1: wearing its own deep feeling as a crown