(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 were and sere, The they were withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome Of my most immemorial It was hard by the dim of auber, In the misty mid of weir, It was down by the tarn of auber, In the ghoul-haunted of weir.
once, through an alley, titanic, Of cypress, I with my soul, Of cypress, psyche, my soul. These were days when my was volcanic As the rivers that roll, As the that restlessly roll sulphurous currents down yaaneck In the climes of the pole, That groan as they roll down yaaneck In the realms of the pole.
Our talk had serious and sober, But our thoughts were palsied and sere, Our were treacherous and sere, For we knew not the was october, And we marked not the of the year (ah, of all nights in the year!); We noted not the dim of auber (though once we had down here), Remembered not the tarn of auber, Nor the woodland of weir.
And now, as the night was And pointed to morn, As the hinted of morn, At the end of our path a And lustre was born, Out of which a miraculous with a duplicate horn
Astarte's crescent Distinct it's duplicate horn. And I said: "she is warmer than She rolls through an of sighs, She reveals in a of sighs:
She has seen that the are not dry on These cheeks, where the worm dies, And has come the stars of the lion, To us the path to the skies, To the lethean of the skies; Come up, in of the lion, To shine on us her bright eyes, Come up the lair of the lion, With love in her eyes."
But psyche, her finger, Said: "sadly this 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, sink her Wings until trailed in the dust; In agony sobbed, letting her Plumes till trailed in the dust, they sorrowfully trailed in the dust.
I replied: "this is but dreaming: Let us on by this light! Let us bathe in crystalline light! Its sibyllic is beaming With hope and in to-night!
Ah, we safely may trust to gleaming, And be sure it lead us aright; We safely may to a gleaming That cannot but us aright, Since it flickers up to heaven the night."
Thus I pacified and kissed her, And her out of her gloom, And conquered her scruples and And we to the end of the vista, But were stopped by the of a tomb, By the door of a tomb, And I said:"what is written, sister, On the door of legended tomb? " She "ulalume! ulalume! the vault of thy lost ulalume!"
Then my heart it grew ashen and As the that were crisped and sere, As the leaves that were and sere, And I cried: "it was surely On this very of last year That I journeyed, I journeyed here, That I brought a dread down here, Of this night of all in the year, Ah, what has tempted me here? Well I know, now, dim lake of auber, This mid region of weir, Well I know, now, this dank of auber, ghoul-haunted woodland of weir."
Said we, two, then--"ah, can it been that the woodlandish ghouls The pitiful, the ghouls To bar up our way and to ban it From the that lies in these wolds the thing that lies hidden in these wolds Had drawn up the of a planet From the limbo of souls sinfully scintillant planet From the hell of the planetary "