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[The following variants appear at the bottom of page 52:]
Title To M — (1829).
1 I heed: O! I care (1829).
4 hatred: fever (1829).
5 mourn: heed (1829).
7 sorrow for: meddle with (1829).
8 After, this line, 1829 adds the following (the poem being divided into stanzas in that edition):
3
It is not that my founts of bliss
Are gushing — strange! with tears —
Or that the thrill of a single kiss
Hath palsied many years —
4
’Tis not that the flowers of twenty springs
Which have wither’d as they rose
Lie dead on my heart-strings
With the weight of an age of snows.
5
Nor that the grass — O! may it thrive!
On my grave is growing or grown —
But that, while I am dead yet alive
I cannot be, lady, alone.
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Notes:
None.
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[S:0 - KCP, 1917] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Works - To ---- ---- (ed. K. Campbell, 1917)