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Title: DREAM-LAND.

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Line-01-001 [[indent]] BY a route obscure and lonely,

Line-01-002 [[indent]] Haunted by ill angels only,

Line-01-003 [[indent]] Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,

Line-01-004 [[indent]] On a black throne reigns upright,

Line-01-005 [[indent]] I have reached these lands but newly

Line-01-006 [[indent]] From an ultimate dim Thule —

Line-01-007 From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime,

Line-01-008 [[indent]] Out of SPACE — out of TIME.

Line-01-009 [[indent]] Bottomless vales and boundless floods,

Line-01-010 [[indent]] And chasms, and caves, and Titan woods,

Line-01-011 [[indent]] With forms that no man can discover

Line-01-012 [[indent]] For the >>dews<< <tears> that drip all over;

Line-01-013 [[indent]] Mountains toppling evermore

Line-01-014 [[indent]] Into seas without a shore;

Line-01-015 [[indent]] Seas that restlessly aspire,

Line-01-016 [[indent]] Surging, unto skies of fire;

Line-01-017 [[indent]] Lakes that endlessly outspread

Line-01-018 [[indent]] Their lone waters — lone and dead, —

Line-01-019 [[indent]] Their still waters — still and chilly

Line-01-020 [[indent]] With the snows of the lolling lily.

Line-01-021 [[indent]] By the lakes that thus outspread

Line-01-022 [[indent]] Their lone waters, lone and dead, — [page 19:]

Line-01-023 [[indent]] Their sad waters, sad and chilly

Line-01-024 [[indent]] With the snows of the lolling lily, —

Line-01-025 [[indent]] By the mountains — near the river

Line-01-026 [[indent]] Murmuring lowly, murmuring ever, —

Line-01-027 [[indent]] By the grey woods, — by the swamp

Line-01-028 [[indent]] Where the toad and the newt encamp, —

Line-01-029 [[indent]] By the dismal tarns and pools

Line-01-030 [[indent]] Where dwell the Ghouls, —

Line-01-031 [[indent]] By each spot the most unholy —

Line-01-032 [[indent]] In each nook most melancholy, —

Line-01-033 [[indent]] There the traveller meets<,> aghast<,>

Line-01-034 [[indent]] Sheeted Memories of the Past —

Line-01-035 [[indent]] Shrouded forms that start and sigh

Line-01-036 [[indent]] As they pass the wanderer by —

Line-01-037 [[indent]] White-robed forms of friends long given,

Line-01-038 [[indent]] In agony, to the Earth — and Heaven.

Line-01-039 [[indent]] For the heart whose woes are legion

Line-01-040 [[indent]] ’Tis a peaceful, soothing region —

Line-01-041 [[indent]] For the spirit that walks in shadow

Line-01-042 [[indent]] ’Tis — oh 'tis an Eldorado!

Line-01-043 [[indent]] But the traveller, travelling through it,

Line-01-044 [[indent]] May not — dare not openly view it;

Line-01-045 [[indent]] Never its mysteries are exposed

Line-01-046 [[indent]] To the weak human eye unclosed;

Line-01-047 [[indent]] So wills its King, who hath forbid

Line-01-048 [[indent]] The uplifting of the fring>>e<<d lid;   <é>

Line-01-049 [[indent]] And thus the sad Soul that here passes

Line-01-050 [[indent]] Beholds it but through darkened glasses.

Line-01-051 [[indent]] By a route obscure and lonely,

Line-01-052 [[indent]] Haunted by ill angels only, [page 20:]

Line-01-053 [[indent]] Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,

Line-01-054 [[indent]] On a black throne reigns upright,

Line-01-055 [[indent]] I have wandered home but newly

Line-01-056 [[indent]] From this ultimate dim Thule.

[[Alternate presentation giving the text as originally printed, with indications for Poe's changes]]

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DREAM-LAND.

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