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A Pæan | Edgar Allan Poe Poems · Ririro.com - Poetry

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  Speaker 1: How shall the burial right be read? The solemn song
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  Speaker 1: be sung, the requiem for the loveliest dead that ever
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  Speaker 1: died so young. Her friends are gazing on her and
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  Speaker 1: on her gaudy beer, and weep, oh to dishonor dead
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  Speaker 1: beauty with a tear. They loved her for her wealth,
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  Speaker 1: and they hated her for a pride. But she grew
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  Speaker 1: in feeble health, and they love her that she died.
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  Speaker 1: They tell me while they speak of her costly broidered Paul,
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  Speaker 1: that my voice is growing weak, that I should not
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  Speaker 1: sing at all, or that my tone should be tuned
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  Speaker 1: to such solemn song. So mournfully, so mournfully, that the
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  Speaker 1: dead may feel no wrong. But she is gone above,
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  Speaker 1: with young hope at her side. And I am drunk
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  Speaker 1: with love of the dead. Who is my bride of
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  Speaker 1: the dead dead, who lies ill perfume there with the
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  Speaker 1: death upon her eyes and the life upon her. Thus
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  Speaker 1: on the coffin, loud and long I strike the murmurs
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  Speaker 1: sent through the great chambers to my song shall be
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  Speaker 1: the accompaniment. Thou died'st in thy life's june. But thou
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  Speaker 1: didst not die too fair, Thou didst not die too soon?
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  Speaker 1: Nor with too common air. For more than fiends on earth,
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  Speaker 1: thy life and love are riven to join the untainted
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  Speaker 1: mirth of more than thrones in heaven. Therefore to THEE
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  Speaker 1: this night I will no requiem rays, but waft THEE
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  Speaker 1: on thy flight with a paeon of old days.