Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

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One of my favorite memories of scaring
myself as a child was getting a compilation

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book of Edgar Allan Poe's stories from
my elementary school library. It brought me

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so much fear and so much excitement. I remember running home from school with

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that book in my backpack as the
sky was dark and a storm was coming.

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I was in my childhood living room, but I wasn't alone. I

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had a pizza and the books of
Poe. Every so often I'll bring you

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a tale of Poe, and I
hope it gives you that scary fun sense,

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just the same as it does for
me. When the clock strikes midnight,

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the story will begin. Annabelle Lee
by Edgar Allan Poe. It was

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many, many a year ago,
in a kingdom by the sea, that

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a maiden there lived, whom you
may know by the name of Annabelle Lee.

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And this maiden she lived with no
other thought than to love and be

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loved by me. I was a
child and she was a child in this

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kingdom by the sea. But we
loved with a love that was more than

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love. I and my annabel Lee, with a love that the winged seraphs

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in heaven coveted her and me.
And this was the reason that long ago,

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in this kingdom by the sea,
a wind blew out of a cloud,

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chilling my beautiful Annabel Lee, so
that her high born kinsman came and

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bore her away from me, to
shut her up in a sepulture in this

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kingdom by the sea. The angels, not half so happy in heaven,

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went envying her and me. Yes, that was the reason, as all

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men know, in this kingdom by
the sea, that the wind came out

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of the cloud by night, chilling
and killing my Annabel Lee. But our

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love it was stronger by far than
the love of those who were older than

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we, of many far wiser than
we. And neither the angels in heaven

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above nor the demons down under the
sea, can ever dissever my soul from

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the soul of the beautiful Annabel Lee. For the moon never beams without bringing

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me dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee, and the stars never rise. But

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I feel the bright eyes of the
beautiful Annabel Lee. And so all the

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night tide I lie down by the
side of my darling, my darling,

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my life, and my bride in
sepulture there by the sea, in her

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tomb, by the sounding sea