POETRY

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 357, 12 March 1903, Page 2

POETRY

ANNABEL LEE. It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom yon may know, By the name of Annabel Lee; And this maiden she lived with no other thought That 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 Annabel Lee: With a love that the winded seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me. And this was the reason that, long ago In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling My beautiful Annabel Lee j So that her high-born kinsman came And bore her away from me. To shut her up in a sepulchre In this kingdom by the sen.

The angels, not 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 the wind came out of the eloua Dy Chilling' and killing my Annabel Lee. But our love it was stronger by far than 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, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee ; For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lae; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee j And so all the night-tide, I he down by the side ... , Of my darling—my darling—my lire ana my bride. In the sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea.