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Eldorado
By Edgar Allan Poe

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              Gaily bedight,
              A gallant knight,
          In sunshine and in shadow,
              Had journeyed long,
              Singing a song,
          In search of Eldorado.

              But he grew old —
              This knight so bold —
          And o’er his heart a shadow
              Fell as he found
              No spot of ground
          That looked like Eldorado.

              And, as his strength
              Failed him at length,
          He met a pilgrim shadow —
              “Shadow,” said he,
              “Where can it be —
          This land of Eldorado?”

              “Over the Mountains
              Of the Moon,
          Down the Valley of the Shadow,
              Ride, boldly ride,”
              The shade replied, —
          “If you seek for Eldorado!”
 
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