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The happiest day — the happiest hour
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My sear’d and blighted heart hath known,
The highest hope of pride, and power,
I feel hath flown.
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Of power! said I? yes! such I ween
But they have vanish’d long alas!
The visions of my youth have been —
But let them pass.
And, pride, what have I now with thee?
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Another brow may ev’n inherit
The venom thou hast pour’d on me —
Be still my spirit.
The happiest day — the happiest hour
Mine eyes shall see — have ever seen
15
The brightest glance of pride and power
I feel — have been:
But were that hope of pride and power
Now offer’d, with the pain
Ev’n then I felt — that brightest hour
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I would not live again:
For on its wing was dark alloy
And as it flutter’d — fell
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An essence — powerful to destroy
A soul that knew it well.
(1827)
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Notes:
None.
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[S:0 - KCP, 1917] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Works - The Happiest Day, the Happiest Hour (K. Campbell, 1917)