Text: Edgar Allan Poe, “The Haunted Palace” (Comparative Text - PPA and Saturday Museum)

 

Title: THE HAUNTED PALACE.

Separator: {{1842-01: —— }}

 

Line-01-001 {{1842-01: IN //1843-02: In }} the greenest of our valleys {{1842-01: , }}

Line-01-002 [[indent]] By good angels tenanted,

Line-01-003 Once a fair and stately palace {{1843-02: — }}

Line-01-004 [[indent]] {{1842-01: (Snow-white //1843-02: Radiant }} palace {{1842-01: ) //1843-02: — }} rear'd its head.

Line-01-005 In the monarch Thought's dominion {{1843-02: — }}

Line-01-006 [[indent]] It stood there!

Line-01-007 Never seraph spread a pinion

Line-01-008 [[indent]] Over fabric half so fair {{1842-01: . //1843-02: ! }}

 

Line-01-009 Banners yellow, glorious, golden,

Line-01-010 [[indent]] On its roof did float and flow {{1842-01: ; //1843-02: , }}

Line-01-011 (This {{1842-01: , //1843-02: — }} all this {{1842-01: , //1843-02: — }} was in the olden

Line-01-012 [[indent]] Time long ago {{1843-02: , }} )

Line-01-013 And every gentle air that dallied,

Line-01-014 [[indent]] In that sweet day,

Line-01-015 Along the ramparts plumed and pallid,

Line-01-016 [[indent]] A winged odour went away.

 

Line-01-017 Wanderers in that happy valley {{1843-02: , }}

Line-01-018 [[indent]] Through two luminous windows {{1843-02: , }} saw

Line-01-019 Spirits moving musically

Line-01-020 [[indent]] To a lute's well-tunéd law {{1842-01: ; //1843-02: , }}

Line-01-021 Round about a throne {{1842-01: , }} where, sitting

Line-01-022 [[indent]] (Porphyrogene!)

Line-01-023 In state his glory well befitting,

Line-01-024 [[indent]] The ruler of the realm was seen.

 

Line-01-025 And all with pearl and ruby glowing

Line-01-026 [[indent]] Was the fair {{1842-01: palace-door //1843-02: palace door }} ,

Line-01-027 Through which came flowing, flowing, flowing,

Line-01-028 [[indent]] And sparkling evermore,

Line-01-029 A troop of {{1842-01: echoes //1843-02: Echoes }} , whose sweet duty

Line-01-030 [[indent]] Was but to sing,

Line-01-031 In voices of surpassing beauty,

Line-01-032 [[indent]] The wit and wisdom of their king.

 

Line-01-033 But evil things, in robes of sorrow,

Line-01-034 [[indent]] Assail'd the monarch's high estate {{1842-01: ; //1843-02: , }}

Line-01-035 (Ah {{1842-01: ! //1843-02: , }} let us mourn {{1842-01: , //1843-02: ! — }} for never {{1842-01: morrow //1843-02: sorrow }}

Line-01-036 [[indent]] Shall dawn upon him, desolate!)

Line-01-037 And round about his home the glory

Line-01-038 [[indent]] That blush'd and bloom'd,

Line-01-039 Is but a dim-remember'd story

Line-01-040 [[indent]] Of the old time entomb'd.

 

Line-01-041 And travellers {{1843-02: , }} now {{1843-02: , }} within that valley,

Line-01-042 [[indent]] Through the red-litten windows see

Line-01-043 Vast forms {{1843-02: , }} that move fantastically

Line-01-044 [[indent]] To a discordant melody {{1842-01: ; //1843-02: , }}

Line-01-045 While, like a {{1842-01: rapid, ghastly //1843-02: ghastly rapid }} river,

Line-01-046 [[indent]] Through the pale door

Line-01-047 A hideous throng rush out forever {{1842-01: , }}

Line-01-048 [[indent]] And laugh — but smile no more.