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Al Aaraaf | Poems by Edgar Allan Poe · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: Oh, nothing earthly save the ray thrown back from flowers
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  Speaker 1: a beauty's eye, as from those gardens where the day
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  Speaker 1: springs from the gems of Cherkassie. Oh, nothing earthly save
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  Speaker 1: the thrill of melody in woodland, rill or music of
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  Speaker 1: the passion hearted Joy's voice so peacefully departed, that, like
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  Speaker 1: the murmur in the shell, its echo dwelleth and will
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  Speaker 1: dwell with nothing of the dross of ours. Yet all
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  Speaker 1: the beauty, all the flowers that list our love and
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  Speaker 1: deck our bowers adorn yon world afow afar the wandering star.
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  Speaker 1: Twas a sweet time for Nissarchi. For there her world
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  Speaker 1: lay lolling on the golden air, near four bright suns,
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  Speaker 1: a temporary rest, a garden spot in desert of the
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  Speaker 1: bless away away mid seas of rays that roll, impurience,
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  Speaker 1: splendor o'er the unshained soul, the soul that scarce the
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  Speaker 1: billows are so dense, can struggle to its destined eminence
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  Speaker 1: the distant spheres. From time to time she rode and
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  Speaker 1: late to ours, the favored one of God. But now
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  Speaker 1: the ruler of an anchored realm, she throws aside the
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  Speaker 1: scepter leaves the helm and amid incense and high spiritual
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  Speaker 1: hymns laves in quadruple light. Her angel limbs now happiest,
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  Speaker 1: loveliest inyon lovely earth, when sprang the idea of beauty
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  Speaker 1: into birth, falling in wreaths through many a startled star
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  Speaker 1: like woman's hair mid pearls until afar it lit on
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  Speaker 1: hills Arecayan, and there dwelt. She looked into infinity and knelt,
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  Speaker 1: which clouds for canopies about her, curled fit emblems of
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  Speaker 1: the model of her world seen but in beauty, not
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  Speaker 1: impeding sight of other beauty, glittering through the night, a
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  Speaker 1: wreath that twined its starry form around, and all the
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  Speaker 1: opaled air in color bound well Hurriedly, she knelt upon
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  Speaker 1: a bed of flowers of lily such as rear the
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  Speaker 1: head on the fair capo Duikato, and sprang so eagerly
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  Speaker 1: around about to hang upon the flying footsteps of deep
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  Speaker 1: pride of her who loved immortal and so died. The cephalica,
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  Speaker 1: budding with young bees, breared its purple stem around her knees,
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  Speaker 1: and a gemmy flower of Trebizond, misnamed inmate of highest stars,
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  Speaker 1: where erst it shamed all other loveliness, its honeyed due
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  Speaker 1: the fabled nectar that the heathen knew deliriously sweet, was
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  Speaker 1: dropped from heaven and fell on gardens of the unforgiven increbizond,
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  Speaker 1: and on a sunny flower so like its own above
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  Speaker 1: that to this hour it still remaineth, torturing the bee
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  Speaker 1: with madness and unwonted reverie in heaven and all its environs.
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  Speaker 1: The leaf and blossom of the fairy plant in grief,
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  Speaker 1: disconsolate linger, grief that hangs her head, repenting follies that
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  Speaker 1: full long have fled, heaving her white breast to the
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  Speaker 1: balmy air, like guilty beauty, chastened and more fair night
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  Speaker 1: tanthus too, as sacred as the light, she fears to perfume,
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  Speaker 1: perfuming the night, and Clytia pondering between many a sun
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  Speaker 1: while Petti's tears adown, her petals run, and that asparring
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  Speaker 1: flower that spray on earth and died ere scarce exalted
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  Speaker 1: into burn, bursting its odorous heart in spirit, to wing
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  Speaker 1: its way to Heaven from garden of a king and
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  Speaker 1: Valisnerian lotus, thither flown from struggling with the waters of
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  Speaker 1: the rhone, and thy most lovely purple perfume zante, he
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  Speaker 1: saw Ldoro fior di Levante, and the Nlumbobad that floats
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  Speaker 1: forever with Indian Cupid down the holy river, fair flowers
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  Speaker 1: and fairy to whose care is given to bear the
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  Speaker 1: goddess song in odors up to Heaven, spirit that dwellest
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  Speaker 1: wear in the deep sky, the terrible and fair in beauty,
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  Speaker 1: Thy beyond the line of blue, the boundary of the
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  Speaker 1: star which turneth at the view of thy barrier, and
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  Speaker 1: thy bar of the barrier, overgone by the comets, who
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  Speaker 1: were cast from their pride and from their throne, to
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  Speaker 1: be drudges, till the last to be carri bars of fire,
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  Speaker 1: the red fire of their heart, with speed that may
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  Speaker 1: not tire, and with pain that shall not part. Who
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  Speaker 1: livest that we know in eternity we feel but the
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  Speaker 1: shadow of whose brow? What spirit shall reveal? Though the
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  Speaker 1: beings whom thy Nesachi, thy messenger hath known, have dreamed
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  Speaker 1: for thy infinity a model of their own. Thy will
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  Speaker 1: is done, O God. The star hath ridden high through
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  Speaker 1: many a tempest, but she rode beneath thy burning eye,
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  Speaker 1: and here in thought to thee in thought that can
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  Speaker 1: alone ascend thy empire, and so be a partner of
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  Speaker 1: thy throne. By winged fantasy, my embassy is given till
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  Speaker 1: secrecy shall knowledge be. In the environs of heaven. She
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  Speaker 1: ceased and buried, then her burning cheek abashed amid the lilies,
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  Speaker 1: there to seek a shelter from the fervor of his eye.
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  Speaker 1: For the stars trembled at the deity. She stirred, not wreathed,
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  Speaker 1: Not for a voice was there, how solemnly pervading the
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  Speaker 1: calm air, A sound of silence on the startled ear,
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  Speaker 1: which dreamy poet's name the music of the sphere. Ours
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  Speaker 1: is a world of words quiet we call silence, which
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  Speaker 1: is the merest word of all. Here nature speaks, and
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  Speaker 1: even ideal things clap shadowy sounds from visionary wings. But
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  Speaker 1: are not so when thus in realms on high, the
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  Speaker 1: eternal voice of God is passing by, and the red
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  Speaker 1: winds are withering in the sky. What though, in worlds
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  Speaker 1: which sightless cycles run linked to a little system and
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  Speaker 1: one son, where all my love is folly, and the
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  Speaker 1: crowds still think my terrors. But the thundercloud, the storm,
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  Speaker 1: the earthquake, and the ocean wrath. Ah, will they cross
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  Speaker 1: me in my angrier path? What though in worlds which
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  Speaker 1: own a single sun, the sounds of time grow dimmer
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  Speaker 1: as they run. Yet thine is my resplendency, So given
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  Speaker 1: to bear my secrets through the upper heaven. Leave tenantless
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  Speaker 1: thy crystal home, and fly with all thy train athwart
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  Speaker 1: the moony sky, apart like fireflies in Sicilian night, and
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  Speaker 1: wing to other worlds another light. Divulge the secrets of
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  Speaker 1: thy embassy to the proud orbs that twinkle, and so
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  Speaker 1: be to every heart a barrier and a band lest
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  Speaker 1: the stars totter in the guilt of man. Up arose
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  Speaker 1: the Maiden in a yellow night, the single mooned eve
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  Speaker 1: on earth. We plight our faith to one love and
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  Speaker 1: one moon adore the birthplace of young beauty. Had no
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  Speaker 1: more as sprang that yellow star from downy hours. Up
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  Speaker 1: rose the Maiden from her shrine of flowers, and bent
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  Speaker 1: to o' sheeny mountain and dim plaine her way, but
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  Speaker 1: left not yet her Thurasian rain l Hraf Part two.
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  Speaker 1: High on a mountain of enameled head, such as the
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  Speaker 1: drowsy shepherd on his bed of giant pasturage, lying at
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  Speaker 1: his ease, raising his heavy eyelid, starts and sees with
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  Speaker 1: many a muttered hope to be forgiven. What time the
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  Speaker 1: moon is quadrated in heaven of rosy head, the towering
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  Speaker 1: far away into the sunlight ether caught the ray of
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  Speaker 1: sunken suns at eve, while the moon danced with the
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  Speaker 1: fair stranger. A light upreared upon such height, arose a
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  Speaker 1: pile of gorgeous columns on the unburdened air, flashing from
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  Speaker 1: Parian marble, that twin smile far down upon the wave
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  Speaker 1: that sparkled there and nursled the young mountain in its
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  Speaker 1: lair of molten stars, their pavement such as fall through
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  Speaker 1: the ebb on air, for silvering the pall of their
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  Speaker 1: own dissolution, while they die adorning. Then the dwellings of
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  Speaker 1: the sky a dome by linked light from Heaven let down,
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  Speaker 1: sat gently upon these columns as a crown, a window
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  Speaker 1: of one circular diamond there looked out above into the
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  Speaker 1: purple air, and rays from God shot down that meteor
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  Speaker 1: chain and hallowed all the beauty twice again, save when
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  Speaker 1: between the Empyrean and that ring, some eager spirit flapp'd
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  Speaker 1: his dusky wing. But on the pillars seraph eyes have
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  Speaker 1: seen the dimness of this world, that grayish green that
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  Speaker 1: nature loves the best. For Beauty's grave blurk'd in each cornice,
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  Speaker 1: round each architrave, and every sculptured cherub thereabout, that from
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  Speaker 1: his marble dwelling ventur'd out seem'd earthly in the shallow
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  Speaker 1: of his niche Arcayan statues. In a world so rich
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  Speaker 1: freezes from Tadmore and Persepolis, from Balbek, and the stilly
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  Speaker 1: clear abyss of beautiful gomorrah O. The wave is now
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  Speaker 1: upon thee, but too late to save sound loves to
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  Speaker 1: revel near a summer night. Witness the murmur of the
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  Speaker 1: gray twilight that stole upon the ear in Iraco of
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  Speaker 1: many a wild star gazer long ago, that stealeth ever
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  Speaker 1: on the ear of him who musing gazeth on the
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  Speaker 1: distance dim and sees the darkness coming as a cloud.
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  Speaker 1: Is not its form, its voice as palpable and loud.
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  Speaker 1: But what is this? It cometh and it brings a
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  Speaker 1: music with it is the rush of wings, a pause,
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  Speaker 1: and then a sweeping falling strain, And asatche is in
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  Speaker 1: her halls again from the wild energy of wanton haste.
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  Speaker 1: Her cheek was flushing, and her lips apart, and zone
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  Speaker 1: that clung around her gentle waist had burst beneath the
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  Speaker 1: heaving of her heart within the center of that hall.
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  Speaker 1: To breathe, she paused and panted, ZANTHI all beneath the
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  Speaker 1: fairy light that kissed her golden hair, and long to rest,
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  Speaker 1: yet could but sparkle. There young flowers were whispering in
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  Speaker 1: melody to happy flowers that night, and a tree to tree,
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  Speaker 1: fountains were gushing music as they fell in many a
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  Speaker 1: starlit grove or moonlit elm in silence came upon material things,
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  Speaker 1: fair flowers, waterfalls, and angel wings, and sound alone that
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  Speaker 1: from the spirits sprang or burden to the charm the
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  Speaker 1: Maiden sang neath bluebell or streamer or tufted wild spray
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  Speaker 1: that keeps from the dreamer, the moonbeam away, bright beings
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  Speaker 1: that ponder with half closing eyes on the stars which
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  Speaker 1: your wonder hath drawn from the skies, till I glanced
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  Speaker 1: through the shade and come down to your brow like
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  Speaker 1: eyes of the Maiden who calls on you now arise
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  Speaker 1: from your dreaming in violet bowers to duty, beseeming these
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  Speaker 1: star litten hours, and shake from your tresses, encumber'd with
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  Speaker 1: dew the breath of those kisses that come b them too. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: how without you love could angels be blessed, those kisses
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  Speaker 1: of true love that lull'd ye to rest up. Shake
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  Speaker 1: from your wing, each hindering thing, the dew of the night.
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  Speaker 1: It would weigh down your flight and true love caresses. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: leave them apart, thou light on the tresses that hang
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  Speaker 1: on the heart. Lijear, liejear, my beautiful one, whose harshest
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  Speaker 1: idea wilt melody run, Oh, is that thy will on
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  Speaker 1: the breezes to toss or capriciously still, like the lone albatross,
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  Speaker 1: incumbent on night, as she on the air, to keep
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  Speaker 1: watch with the light on the harmony there, lijear, Whatever
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  Speaker 1: thy image may be, no magic shall sever thy music
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  Speaker 1: from thee Thou hast bound many eyes in a dreamy sleep.
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  Speaker 1: But the strains still arise, which thy vigilance keep the
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  Speaker 1: sound of the rain, which leaves down to the flower
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  Speaker 1: and dances again in the rhythm of the shower. The
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  Speaker 1: murmur that springs from the growing of grass are the
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  Speaker 1: music of things that are modeled alas away, then, my dearest,
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  Speaker 1: oh hie thee away to springs that lie clearest beneath
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  Speaker 1: the moon ray, the lone lake that smiles in his
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  Speaker 1: dream of deep rest, at the many star isles that
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  Speaker 1: enduel its breast, where wild flowers creeping have mingled their shade,
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  Speaker 1: when its margin is sleeping full. Many are maid Some
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  Speaker 1: have left the cool glade and have slept with the bee.
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  Speaker 1: Arouse them, my maiden on moorland, and lea go breathe
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  Speaker 1: on their slumber, all softly in ear the musical number
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  Speaker 1: they slumber'd to hear. For what can awaken an angel
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  Speaker 1: so soon whose sleep hath been taken beneath the cold moon?
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  Speaker 1: As the spell which no slumber of witchery can test,
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  Speaker 1: the rhythmical number which lulled him to rest. Spirits in
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  Speaker 1: wing and angels to the view. A thousand serphs burst
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  Speaker 1: the Impurian through young dreams, still hovering on their drowsy flight,
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  Speaker 1: seeraphs in all but knowledge, the keen light that fell
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  Speaker 1: refracted through thy bounds. Afar o death from eye of
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  Speaker 1: God upon that star. Sweet was that error, sweet as
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  Speaker 1: still that death? Sweet was that error? Even with us,
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  Speaker 1: the breath of science dims the mirror of our joy.
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  Speaker 1: To them twere the simoon, and would destroy. For what
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  Speaker 1: to them availeth it to know that truth is falsehood,
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  Speaker 1: or that bliss is woe. Sweet was their death with
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  Speaker 1: them to die was rife with the last ecstasy of
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  Speaker 1: satiate life. Beyond that death no immortality but sleep that
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  Speaker 1: pondereth and is not to be. And there, oh, may
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  Speaker 1: my weary spirit dwell apart from Heaven's eternity. And yet
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  Speaker 1: how far from Hell, what guilty spirit, in what shrubbery
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  Speaker 1: dim heard not the stirring summons of that hymn, But
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  Speaker 1: too they fell for heav'n no grace imparts to those
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  Speaker 1: who hear, not for their beating hearts a maiden angel
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  Speaker 1: and her seraph lover, O where and ye may seek
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  Speaker 1: the wide skies over was love, the blind, near sober duty,
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  Speaker 1: known unguided love hath fallen mid tears of perfect moan.
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  Speaker 1: He was a goodly spirit, he who fell a wanderer
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  Speaker 1: by mossy, mantled well a gaze on the lights that
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  Speaker 1: shine above, a dreamer in the moonbeam by his love.
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  Speaker 1: What wonder for each star is eye like there and
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  Speaker 1: look'd so sweetly down on beauty's hair, And they and
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  Speaker 1: every mossy spring were wholly to his love. Haunted heart
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  Speaker 1: and melancholy. The knight had found to him a knight
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  Speaker 1: of woe. Upon a mountain crag, young Angelo beetling, it
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  Speaker 1: bends athwart the solemn sky, and scowls on starry worlds
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  Speaker 1: that down beneath it lie. So sat he with his love,
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  Speaker 1: his dark eye bent with eagle gaze along the firmament.
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  Speaker 1: Now turn'd it upon her, But ever then it trembl'd
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  Speaker 1: to one constant star. Again. He arn't the dearest see
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  Speaker 1: how dim that ray her lovely tears to look so
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  Speaker 1: far away. She seem'd not Thus upon that autumn eve
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  Speaker 1: I left her gorgeous halls, nor mourn'd to leave that eve.
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  Speaker 1: That eve. I should remember well that sun ray dropped
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  Speaker 1: in Lemnos with a spell on the arabisque carving of
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  Speaker 1: a gilded hall wherein I sat, and on the draperied wall,
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  Speaker 1: and on my eyelids, Oh the heavy light, how drowsily
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  Speaker 1: it weighed them into night on flowers afore and mist
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  Speaker 1: and love they ran with Persian Sadi in his gulistan.
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  Speaker 1: But o that light I slumbered death the while stole
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  Speaker 1: all my senses in that lovely isle so softly that
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  Speaker 1: no single silken hair awoke, that slept, or knew that
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  Speaker 1: it was there. The last spot of Earth's orb I
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  Speaker 1: trod upon was a proud temple called the Parthenon. More
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  Speaker 1: beauty clung around her columned wall than even my glowing
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  Speaker 1: bosom beats withal. And when old time my wing did
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  Speaker 1: this end all, thence sprang aye as the eagle from
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  Speaker 1: his tower, and years I left behind me in an hour?
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  Speaker 1: What time upon her airy bounds I hung, when half
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  Speaker 1: the garden of her globe was flung unrolling as a
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  Speaker 1: chart unto my view tenantless cities of the desert too,
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  Speaker 1: the ant the beauty crowded on me then, and half
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  Speaker 1: I wished to be again of men, my Angelo, And
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  Speaker 1: why of them to be a brighter dwelling place is
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  Speaker 1: here for thee and greener fields than in yon world
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  Speaker 1: above a woman's loveliness and passionate love At least I anthee.
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  Speaker 1: When the air so soft failed as my pen and
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  Speaker 1: the spirit leaped aloft, Perhaps my brain grew dizzy, But
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  Speaker 1: the world I left so late, was into chaos, hurled,
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  Speaker 1: sprang from her station on the winds apart enrolled aflame
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  Speaker 1: the fiery heaven athwart, methought, my sweet one. Then I
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  Speaker 1: ceased to soar, and fell, not swiftly as I rose before,
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  Speaker 1: but with a downward, tremulous motion through light brazen rays
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  Speaker 1: this golden star unto nor long the measure of my
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  Speaker 1: falling hours. For near it of all stars was thine
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  Speaker 1: to ours, dread star that came amid a night of mirth.
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  Speaker 1: A read to Dahalion on the timid earth we came,
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  Speaker 1: and to thy earth, but not to us be given
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  Speaker 1: our ladies bidding to discuss we came my love around
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  Speaker 1: above below, gay firefly of the night, we come and go,
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  Speaker 1: Nor ask a reason save the angel Nod, she grants
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  Speaker 1: to us as granted by her God. But Angelo than
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  Speaker 1: thine great time unfurled, never his feary wing or ferrier
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  Speaker 1: world dim was its little disk, and angel eyes alone
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  Speaker 1: could see the phantom in the skies. When first al
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  Speaker 1: a'hraf knew her course to be headlong thitherwood o'er the
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  Speaker 1: starry sea. But when its glory swell'd upon the sky
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  Speaker 1: as glowing beauties bust beneath man's eye. We paused before
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  Speaker 1: the heritage of men, and thy star trembl'd as doth beauty.
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  Speaker 1: Then thus in discourse the lovers wild away the night
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  Speaker 1: that waned and waned, and brought no day. They fell,
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  Speaker 1: for heaven to them no hope in parts who hear
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  Speaker 1: not for the beating of their hearts