It was many and many a year ago
    In a kingdom by the sea
That a maiden there lived, whom you may know
    By the name of Annabelle Lee
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
    Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child
    In this kingdom by the sea
But we loved with a love that was more than love
    I and my Annabelle Lee
With a love that winged seraphs of Heaven
    Coveted her and me

This was the reason that, long ago
    In this kingdom by the sea
That the winds came out of a cloud, chilling
    My beautiful Annabelle Lee
So that her highborn kinsmen came
    And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
    In this kingdom by the sea

The Angels, half so happy in Heaven,
    Went envying her and me
Yes! That was the reason (as all men know
    In this kingdom by the sea)
That a wind came out of a cloud by night
    Chilling and killing my Annabelle Lee.

But our love, it was stronger by far than the love
    Of those who were older than we,
    Of many far wiser than we
And neither the Angels in Heaven above
    Nor the demons down under the sea
Could never dissever my soul from the soul
    Of the beautiful Annabelle Lee.

For the moon never beams without giving me dreams
    Of the beautiful Annabelle Lee
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
    Of my beautiful Annabelle Lee.
And so, all the nighttide, I lie down by the side
    Of my darling! My darling, my life and my bride.
In her sepulchre, there by the sea,
    In her tomb, by the sounding sea.

--Edgar Allan Poe

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