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What happens to our loved ones when they
die?
Do they simply 'vanish'?
Or may they yet continue in some fashion,
to help or hinder us ...
Deep Space is a void.
Galaxies are pinpoints in a sea of desolation.
Annabelle Lee
by Edgar Allan Poe
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.
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.
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 sepulcher
In this kingdom by the sea.
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.
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.
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 the sepulcher there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
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