(e.a.poe) Jeff performed a reading of this poem by edgar poe for the tribute compilation closed on account of rabies, produced by hal willner.
The skies were and sober, The leaves they crisped and sere, The leaves were withering and sere; It was in the lonesome october Of my most immemorial It was hard by the dim of auber, In the misty mid of weir, It was by the dank tarn of auber, In the ghoul-haunted of weir.
Here once, an alley, titanic, Of cypress, I roamed my soul, Of cypress, psyche, my soul. These were when my heart was volcanic As the scoriac rivers roll, As the that restlessly roll Their sulphurous currents yaaneck In the ultimate of the pole, That as they roll down mount yaaneck In the of the boreal pole.
Our talk had serious and sober, But our thoughts were palsied and sere, Our memories were and sere, For we not the month was october, And we marked not the night of the (ah, night of all in the year!); We noted not the dim lake of (though once we had down here), not the dank tarn of auber, Nor the woodland of weir.
And now, as the was senescent And star-dials to morn, As the hinted of morn, At the end of our path a And lustre was born, Out of which a crescent Arose with a duplicate
bediamonded crescent Distinct with it's horn. And I "she is warmer than dian; She through an ether of sighs, She reveals in a of sighs:
She has seen the tears are not dry on These cheeks, the worm never dies, And has past the stars of the lion, To point us the to the skies, To the lethean peace of the Come up, in of the lion, To shine on us with her eyes, Come up the lair of the lion, With in her luminous eyes."
But psyche, her finger, Said: "sadly star I mistrust, Her pallor I strangely Oh, hasten! oh, let us not linger! Oh, fly! let us fly! for we must." In terror she spoke, letting her Wings they trailed in the dust; In sobbed, letting sink her till they trailed in the dust, Till sorrowfully trailed in the dust.
I replied: "this is nothing but Let us on by this light! Let us bathe in this light! Its splendor is beaming With hope and in to-night!
Ah, we safely may trust to gleaming, And be sure it will lead us We safely may trust to a That cannot but us aright, Since it flickers up to heaven the night."
Thus I psyche and kissed her, And her out of her gloom, And conquered her and gloom; And we to the end of the vista, But were by the door of a tomb, By the of a legended tomb, And I said:"what is written, sister, On the of this legended tomb? " She "ulalume! ulalume! 'tis the vault of thy ulalume!"
Then my heart it grew ashen and As the leaves that crisped and sere, As the leaves were withering and sere, And I cried: "it was surely On this very night of year I journeyed, I journeyed down here, That I brought a burden down here, Of this of all nights in the year, Ah, what demon has tempted me I know, now, this dim lake of auber, This mid region of weir, Well I know, now, dank tarn of auber, This woodland of weir."
Said we, two, then--"ah, can it been that the woodlandish ghouls The pitiful, the merciful To bar up our way and to ban it From the secret that in these wolds From the thing that hidden in these wolds Had drawn up the of a planet From the limbo of lunary This scintillant planet the hell of the planetary souls? "