Title: LENORE.

Line-01-001: AH, broken is the golden bowl! {{1845-01: the //1849-02: [[new line]] [[indented]] The }} spirit flown forever!

Line-01-002: Let the bell toll! {{1845-01: — a //1849-02: [[new line]] A }} saintly soul {{1845-01: floats //1849-02: [[new line]] [[indented]] Floats }} on the Stygian river;

Line-01-003: And, {{1845-01: Guy De Vere //1849-02: GUY DE VERE }} , {{1845-01: hast //1849-02: [[new line]] Hast }} thou no tear? {{1845-01: — weep //1849-02: [[new line]] [[indented]] Weep }} now or never more!

Line-01-004: See {{1845-01: ! //1849-02: , }} on yon drear {{1845-01: and //1849-02: [[new line]] And }} rigid bier {{1845-01: low //1849-02: [[new line]] [[indented]] Low }} lies thy love, {{1845-01: Lenore //1849-02: LENORE }} !

Line-01-005: Come {{1845-01: ! //1849-02: , }} let the burial rite be read — {{1845-01: the //1849-02: [[new line]] [[indented]] The }} funeral song be sung! —

Line-01-006: An anthem for the queenliest dead {{1845-01: that // 1849-02: [[new line]] [[indented]] That }} ever died so young —

Line-01-007: A dirge for her the doubly dead {{1845-01: in //1849-02: , [[new line]] [[indented]] In }} that she died so young {{1845-01: . //1849-02: ! }}

 

Line-01-008: “Wretches! ye loved her for her wealth {{1845-01: and // 1849-02: , [[new line]] [[indented]] And }} hated her for her pride {{1845-01: , //1849-02: ; }}

Line-01-009: {{1845-01: “  }} And when she fell in feeble health, {{1845-01: ye blessed //1849-02: [[new line]] [[indented]] Ye bless’d }} her — that she died!

Line-01-010: {{1845-01: “  }} How shall the ritual, then, be read? {{1845-01: — the //1849-02: [[new line]] [[indented]] The }} requiem how be sung

Line-01-011: {{1845-01: “  }} By you — by yours, the evil eye {{1845-01: , }} — {{1845-01: by //1849-02: [[new line]] [[indented]] By }} yours, the slanderous tongue

Line-01-012: {{1845-01: “  }} That did to death the innocence {{1845-01: that //1849-02: [[new line]] [[indented]] That }} died, and died so young?”

 

Line-01-013: Peccavimus; {{1845-01: but //1849-02: [[new line]] But }} rave not thus! {{1845-01: and //1849-02: [[new line]] [[indented]] And }} let a {{1845-01: Sabbath //1849-02: sabbath }} song

Line-01-014: {{1849-02: [[indented]] }} Go up to God so solemnly {{1849-02: , }} the dead may feel no wrong!

Line-01-015: The sweet {{1845-01: Lenore hath //1849-02: LENORE [[new line]] Hath }} “gone before,” {{1845-01: with //1849-02: [[new line]] [[indented]] With }} Hope, that flew beside,

Line-01-016: Leaving thee wild {{1845-01: for //1849-02: [[new line]] For }} the dear child {{1845-01: that //1849-02: [[new line]] [[indented]] That }} should have been thy bride —

Line-01-017: For her, the fair {{1845-01: and //1849-02: [[new line]] And }} debonair, {{1845-01: that //1849-02: [[new line]] [[indented]] That }} now so lowly lies,

Line-01-018: The life upon her yellow hair {{1845-01: but //1849-02: [[new line]] [[indented]] But }} not within her eyes —

Line-01-019: The life still there, {{1845-01: upon //1849-02: [[new line]] Upon }} her hair — {{1845-01: the //1849-02: [[new line]] [[indented]] The }} death upon her eyes.

 

Line-01-020: “Avaunt! to-night {{1845-01: my //1849-02: [[new line]] My }} heart is light. {{1849-02: [[new line]] [[indented]] }} No dirge will I upraise,

Line-01-021: {{1845-01: “  }} But waft the angel on her flight {{1845-01: with //1849-02: [[new line]] [[indented]] With }} a {{1845-01: Pæan //1849-02: pæan }} of old days!

Line-01-022: {{1845-01: “  }} Let no bell toll! — {{1845-01: lest //1849-02: [[new line]] Lest }} her sweet soul, {{1845-01: amid //1849-02: [[new line]] [[indented]] Amid }} its {{1845-01: hallowed //1849-02: hallow’d }} mirth,

Line-01-023: {{1845-01: “  }} Should catch the note, {{1845-01: as //1849-02: [[new line]] As }} it doth float — {{1845-01: up //1849-02: [[new line]] [[indented]] Up }} from the damnéd {{1845-01: Earth //1849-02: earth }} .

Line-01-024: {{1845-01: “  }} To friends above, from fiends below, {{1845-01: the //1849-02: [[new line]] [[indented]] The }} indignant ghost is riven —

Line-01-025: {{1845-01: “  }} From Hell unto a high estate {{1845-01: far //1849-02: [[new line]] [[indented]] Far }} up within the Heaven —

Line-01-026: {{1845-01: “  }} From grief and groan, {{1845-01: to //1849-02: [[new line]] To }} a golden throne, {{1845-01: beside // 1849-02: [[new line]] [[indented]] Beside }} the King of Heaven.{{1845-01: [[”]] //1849-02:  ” }}