(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 they were and sere, The they were withering and sere; It was night in the october Of my most year; 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.
once, through an alley, titanic, Of cypress, I roamed my soul, Of cypress, psyche, my soul. These days when my heart was volcanic As the rivers that roll, As the lavas restlessly roll Their sulphurous down yaaneck In the climes of the pole, That as they roll down mount yaaneck In the realms of the pole.
Our had been serious and sober, But our thoughts they were and sere, Our memories were and sere, For we not the month was october, And we not the night of the year (ah, night of all in the year!); We noted not the dim of auber (though we had journeyed down here), Remembered not the dank of auber, Nor the ghoul-haunted of weir.
And now, as the was senescent And star-dials to morn, As the star-dials of morn, At the end of our a liquescent And lustre was born, Out of a miraculous crescent Arose a duplicate horn
Astarte's crescent Distinct it's duplicate horn. And I "she is warmer than dian; She rolls through an of sighs, She reveals in a of sighs:
She has that the tears are not dry on These cheeks, where the never dies, And has come past the of the lion, To us the path to the skies, To the lethean peace of the up, in despite 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, "sadly this star I mistrust, Her I strangely mistrust; Oh, hasten! oh, let us not linger! Oh, fly! let us fly! for we must." In terror she spoke, sink her Wings until they trailed in the 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 tremulous light! Let us bathe in this light! Its sibyllic splendor is With hope and in to-night!
Ah, we safely may to it's gleaming, And be sure it will lead us We safely may trust to a That cannot but us aright, it flickers up to heaven through the night."
Thus I pacified psyche and 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 of a legended tomb, And I said:"what is written, sister, On the door of legended tomb? " She "ulalume! ulalume! 'tis the of thy lost ulalume!"
Then my it grew ashen and sober As the leaves that were and sere, As the that were withering and sere, And I "it was surely october On this very night of last That I journeyed, I down here, That I brought a burden down here, Of night of all nights in the year, Ah, what demon has tempted me Well I know, now, this dim of auber, This misty mid of weir, Well I know, now, this dank of auber, This woodland of weir."
we, then--the two, then--"ah, can it Have been that the ghouls The pitiful, the ghouls To bar up our way and to ban it From the secret that lies in wolds From the thing that hidden in these wolds Had drawn up the of a planet the limbo of lunary souls This sinfully scintillant From the hell of the planetary "