Title: LENORE.

Line-01-001: {{1849-01: AH //1849-03: Ah }} , broken is the golden bowl! {{1849-03: — }} the spirit flown forever!

Line-01-002: Let the bell toll! — a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river {{1849-01: ; //1849-03: : — }}

Line-01-003: And, Guy De Vere, hast thou no tear? — weep now or never more!

Line-01-004: See! on yon drear and rigid bier low lies thy love, Lenore!

Line-01-005: Come {{1849-01: ! //1849-03: , }} let the burial rite be read — the funeral song be sung! —

Line-01-006: An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died so young —

Line-01-007: A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young.

 

Line-01-008: “Wretches! ye loved her for her wealth and {{1849-03: ye }} hated her for her pride {{1849-01: , //1849-03: ; }}

Line-01-009: {{1849-01: “  }} And {{1849-03: , }} when she fell in feeble health, ye blessed her {{1849-01: — //1849-03: —— }} that she died {{1849-01: ! //1849-03: : — }}

Line-01-010: {{1849-01: “  }} How shall the ritual {{1849-01: , }} then {{1849-01: , }} be read? — the requiem how be sung

Line-01-011: {{1849-01: “  }} By you — by yours, the evil eye, — by yours {{1849-01: , }} the slanderous tongue

Line-01-012: {{1849-01: “  }} That did to death the innocence that died, and died so young?”

 

Line-01-013: Peccavimus; {{1849-03: — }} but rave not thus! and let a Sabbath song

Line-01-014: Go up to God so solemnly the dead may feel no wrong!

Line-01-015: The sweet Lenore hath {{1849-01: “  }} gone before,{{1849-01:  ” }} with Hope, that flew beside,

Line-01-016: Leaving thee wild for the dear child that should have been thy bride —

Line-01-017: For her, the fair and {{1849-01: debonair //1849-03: debonair }} , that now so lowly lies,

Line-01-018: The life upon her yellow hair {{1849-03: , }} but not within her eyes —

Line-01-019: The life still there {{1849-01: , }} upon her hair {{1849-03: — //1849-03: , }} the death upon her eyes.

 

Line-01-020: Avaunt! — avaunt! {{1849-02; 1849-03: to friends }} from fiends {{1849-01: below, }} the indignant ghost is riven —

Line-01-021: “From Hell unto a high estate far up within the {{1849-03: utmost }} Heaven —

Line-01-022: “From {{1849-01; 1849-02: grief and groan, // 1849-03: moan and groan }} to a golden throne {{1849-01; 1849-02: , }} beside the King of Heaven {{1849-01: ! //1849-02: : }} —

Line-01-023: [[“]]Let {{1849-01: no //1849-02: no }} bell toll, then {{1849-01: ! — //1849-02: , }} lest her soul, amid its hallowed mirth,

Line-01-024: [[“]]Should catch the note {{1849-02: , }} as it doth float up from the {{1849-01: damnéd //1849-02: damnèd }} Earth {{1849-01: ! — //1849-02: ; //1849-03: ! }}

Line-01-025: [[“]]And I! — to-night my heart is light! — {{1849-01: No //1849-02: no }} dirge will I upraise

Line-01-026: [[“]]But waft the angel on her flight with a {{1849-01; 1849-02: Pæan //1849-03: Pœan [[Pæan]] }} of old days! {{1849-01; 1849-02: [[”]] //1849-03:  ” }}