Fairyland 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 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. Fairyland by
Edgar Allan Poe. Dim vals and

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shadowy floods, and cloudy looking woods
whose forms we can't discover. For the

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tears that drip all over huge moons. There wax and wane again again again,

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every moment of the night, forever
changing places, And they put out

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the starlight with the breath from their
pale faces, about twelve by the moon.

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Dial, one more filmy than the
rest, a sort of which,

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upon trial they have found to be
the best, comes down, still down

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and down, with its center on
the crown of a mountain's eminence, while

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its wide circumference in easy drapery falls
over hamlets and rich halls, wherever they

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may be, o'er the strange woods, over the sea, over spirits on

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the wing, over every drowsy thing, and buries them up quite in a

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labyrinth of light. And then how
deep, oh deep, is the passion

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of their sleep. In the morning
they arise, and their moony covering is

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soaring in the skies with the tempests, as they toss like almost anything,

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or a yellow albatross. They use
that moon no more for the same end

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as before, videlicita tent, which
I think extravagant its atoms, however,

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into a shower dissever of which those
butterflies of earth who seek the skies and

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so come down again the unbelieving things
have brought a specimen upon their quivering wings