(e.a.poe) Jeff performed a reading of this by edgar allan poe for the tribute compilation closed on account of rabies, produced by hal willner.
The were ashen and sober, The leaves were crisped and sere, The leaves they withering and sere; It was night in the lonesome Of my most immemorial It was by the dim lake of auber, In the misty mid of weir, It was by the dank tarn of auber, In the woodland of weir.
Here once, an alley, titanic, Of cypress, I with my soul, Of cypress, psyche, my soul. These were days my heart was volcanic As the scoriac that roll, As the lavas that restlessly sulphurous currents down yaaneck In the ultimate of the pole, That groan as they roll down yaaneck In the realms of the pole.
Our talk had been 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 night of the (ah, night of all in the year!); We noted not the dim lake of (though once we had down here), Remembered not the tarn of auber, Nor the ghoul-haunted 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 Arose with a duplicate
bediamonded crescent Distinct with duplicate horn. And I "she is warmer than dian; She rolls through an of sighs, She in a region of sighs:
She has that the tears are not dry on These cheeks, where the worm dies, And has come past the of the lion, To us the path to the skies, To the lethean of the skies; Come up, in of the lion, To on us with her bright eyes, Come up through the of the lion, love in her luminous eyes."
But psyche, her finger, "sadly this star I mistrust, Her pallor I mistrust; Oh, hasten! oh, let us not linger! Oh, fly! let us fly! for we must." In she spoke, letting sink her Wings until trailed in the dust; In agony sobbed, sink her Plumes till trailed in the dust, they sorrowfully trailed in the dust.
I replied: "this is nothing but Let us on by this light! Let us bathe in this light! Its sibyllic splendor is With hope and in to-night!
Ah, we safely may trust to gleaming, And be sure it will lead us We may trust to a gleaming That but guide us aright, Since it flickers up to heaven the night."
Thus I psyche and kissed her, And her out of her gloom, And her scruples and gloom; 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! 'tis the vault of thy ulalume!"
Then my heart it ashen and sober As the that were crisped and sere, As the leaves were withering and sere, And I cried: "it was october On this very of last year I journeyed, I journeyed down here, That I brought a dread burden here, Of this of all nights in the year, Ah, what demon has me here? Well I know, now, this dim of auber, This misty mid of weir, I know, now, this dank tarn of auber, This woodland of weir."
Said we, two, then--"ah, can it Have that the woodlandish ghouls The pitiful, the merciful To bar up our way and to ban it From the secret that lies in these From the that lies hidden in these wolds Had drawn up the spectre of a From the limbo of lunary sinfully scintillant planet From the hell of the planetary "