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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 Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
   Than to love and be loved by me.
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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 winged seraphs of heaven
   Coveted her and me.
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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;
So that her highborn kinsman came
   And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
   In this kingdom by the sea.
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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 cloud by night,
   Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.
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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,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
   Of the beautiful Annabel Lee:
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For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
   Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
   Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, 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.

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Hace de esto ya muchos, muchos años,
cuando en un reino junto al mar viví,
vivía allí una virgen que os evoco
por el nombre de Annabel Lee;
y era su único sueño verse siempre
por mí adorada y adorarme a mí.

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Niños éramos ambos, en el reino
junto al mar; nos quisimos allí
con amor que era amor de los amores,
yo con mi Annabel Lee;
con amor que los ángeles del cielo
envidiaban a ella cuanto a mí.

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Y por eso, hace mucho, en aquel reino,
en el reino ante el mar, ¡triste de mí!,
desde una nube sopló un viento, helando
para siempre a mi hermosa Annabel Lee
Y parientes ilustres la llevaron
lejos, lejos de mí;
en el reino ante el mar se la llevaron
hasta una tumba a sepultarla allí.

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¡Oh sí! -no tan felices los arcángeles-,
llegaron a envidiarnos, a ella, a mí.
Y no más que por eso -todos, todos
en el reino, ante el mar, sábenlo así-,
sopló viento nocturno, de una nube,
robándome por siempre a Annabel Lee.

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Mas, vence nuestro amor; vence al de muchos,
más grandes que ella fue, que nunca fui;
y ni próceres ángeles del cielo
ni demonios que el mar prospere en sí,
separarán jamás mi alma del alma
de la radiante Annabel Lee.

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Pues la luna ascendente, dulcemente,
tráeme sueños de Annabel Lee;
como estrellas tranquilas las pupilas
me sonríen de Annabel Lee;
y reposo, en la noche embellecida,
con mi siempre querida, con mi vida;
con mi esposa radiante Annabel Lee
en la tumba, ante el mar, Annabel Lee.

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From The Works of the Late Edgar Allan Poe, vol. II, 1850

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