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Bridal Ballad | Poems by Edgar Allan Poe · Ririro.com - Poetry

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Speaker 1: The ring is on my hand, and the wreath is
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Speaker 1: on my brow. Satins and jewels grand are all at
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Speaker 1: my command. And I am happy now, and my Lord
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Speaker 1: he loves me well. But when first he breathed his vow,
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Speaker 1: I felt my bosom swell, for the words rang as
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Speaker 1: a knell, and the voice seemed his, who fell in
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Speaker 1: the battle down the dell, and who is happy now?
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Speaker 1: But he spoke to reassure me, and he kissed my
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Speaker 1: pallid brow, while a reverie came o'er me, and to
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Speaker 1: the churchyard bore me, and I sighed to him before me,
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Speaker 1: thinking him dead, delor me, Oh, I am happy now.
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Speaker 1: And thus the words were spoken, and this the plighted vow.
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Speaker 1: And though my faith be broken, and though my heart
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Speaker 1: be broken, behold the golden token that proves me happy. Now,
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Speaker 1: would God I could awaken, for I dream I know
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Speaker 1: not how, And my soul is sorely shaken. Lest an
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Speaker 1: evil step be taken, lest the dead who is forsaken
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Speaker 1: may not be happy now