Ween - A Tear for Eddie
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Сегодня, кстати, исполняется 198 лет со дня рождения великого писателя Эдгара Аллана По.
Сверстник Гоголя, который (Гоголь) пережил его всего на три года. Вообще, у них была масса общего. Та же готическая тематика. Кстати, По, как и Николай Васильевич, панически боялся погребения заживо. Пил. Пережил жену, на которой женился в 26, когда той было 13 лет и которая умерла от чахотки. Запил еще сильнее. За год до смерти пытался покончить с собой. А в 40 лет его нашли "не в себе" на улице, в чужой одежде. Через четыре дня скончался в больнице.

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ANNABEL LEE
(1849)


It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of ANNABEL LEE;--
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.


She was a child and I was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea,
But we loved with a love that was more than love--
I and my Annabel Lee--
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud by night
Chilling my Annabel Lee;
So that her high-born kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in Heaven,
Went envying her and me:--
Yes! that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of a cloud, chilling
And killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we--
Of many far wiser than we-
And neither the angels in Heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee:--

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea--
In her tomb by the side of the sea.