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 THE LIBRARY 
 
 OF 
 
 THE UNIVERSITY 
 OF CALIFORNIA 
 
 LOS ANGELES
 
 L E N O R E. 
 
 BY 
 
 EDGAR ALLAN POE. 
 
 ILLUSTRATED. 
 
 BOSTON: 
 PUBLISHED BY ESTES AND LAURIAT. 
 
 1886.
 
 Copyright, 1SS5, 
 BY CHARLES E. WENTWORTH . 
 
 UNIVERSITY PRESS: 
 JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE.
 
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 EDGAR ALLAX POE was born in Baltimore in 1811. He graduated at 
 the University of Virginia in 1826 ; and having spent a year in Europe, he 
 returned to America, and was for a number of years editor of different 
 magazines, among which was the " Broadway Journal." The poem of 
 Lenore was always his favorite, and above his desk always hung the 
 romantic picture of his loved and lost Lenore. He died in Baltimore 
 in 1849. 
 
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 ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 BY HY. SANDHAM, A.R.A. 
 
 Drawn and Engraved under the supervision of 
 GEORGE T. ANDREW.
 
 the spirit flown forever!
 
 Let the bell toll ! 
 
 a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river;
 
 And, Guy De Vere, hast thou no tear? 
 
 weep now or nevermore !
 
 See ! on yon drear 
 and rigid bier 
 low lies thy love, 
 Lenore ! 
 
 Come! let the burial 
 rite be read, 
 the funeral song 
 be sung!
 
 An anthem for the queenliest dead 
 
 that ever died so young, 
 
 A dirge for her, the doubly dead, 
 
 in that she died so young.
 
 Wretches ! ye loved her for her wealth 
 
 and hated her for her pride,
 
 "And when she fell in feeble health, 
 
 ye blessed her that she died! 
 "How shall the ritual, then, be read? 
 the requiem how be sung 
 
 " By you by yours, the evil eye, 
 
 by yours, the slanderous tongue 
 " That did to death the innocence 
 
 that died, and died so young?"
 
 Peccavimus ! but rave not thus, 
 
 and let a Sabbath song 
 Go up to God so solemnly 
 
 the dead may feel no wrong!
 
 The sweet Lenore hath " gone before," 
 
 with Hope, that flew beside, 
 
 Leaving thee wild for the dear child 
 
 that should have been thy bride,
 
 For her, the fair and debonair, 
 
 that now so lowly lies,
 
 The life upon her yellow hair but not within her eyes, 
 The life still there, upon her hair; 
 
 the death upon her eyes. 
 
 Avaunt ! to-night my heart is light. 
 
 No dirge will I upraise, 
 " But waft the angel on her flight 
 
 with a Paean of old days! 
 " Let no bell toll ! 
 
 lest her sweet soul, amid its hallowed mirth, 
 " Should catch the note 
 
 as it doth float up from the damned Earth. 
 "To friends above, from fiends below, 
 
 the indignant ghost is riven, 
 "From Hell unto a high estate 
 
 far up within the Heaven, 
 
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 From griet and groan to a golden throne, 
 
 beside the Kino- of Heaven."
 
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