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To F——
By Edgar Allan Poe

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          Beloved! amid the earnest woes
              That crowd around my earthly path —
          (Drear path, alas! where grows
          Not even one lonely rose) —
              My soul at least a solace hath
          In dreams of thee, and therein knows
          An Eden of bland repose.

          And thus thy memory is to me
              Like some enchanted far-off isle
          In some tumultuous sea —
          Some ocean throbbing far and free
              With storms — but where meanwhile
          Serenest skies continually
              Just o’re that one bright island smile.
 
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