Imitation 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 Awlan 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. Imitation by
Edgar Allan Poe. A dark,

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unfathomed tide of interminable pride, a
mystery, and a dream should my early

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life seem. I say that dream
was fraught with a wild and waking thought

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of beings that have been, which
my spirit hath not seen. Had I

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let them pass me by with a
dreaming eye, let none of earth inherit

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that vision of my spirit. Those
thoughts I would control as a spell upon

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his soul, for that bright hope
at last, and that light time hath

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pass'd and my worldly rest hath gone
with a sigh as it passed on.

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I care not though it perish.
With a thought I then did cherish