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... "Tell me truly, I implore-- Is there--_is_ there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!"

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"Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore."

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"'Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!' I shrieked, upstarting."

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"'Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian sh.o.r.e!'"

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"And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor Shall be lifted--nevermore!"

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