It was many and many a year ago,
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In a a kingdom by the sea,
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That a maiden there lived whom you may know
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By the name of annabel lee;
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And this maiden she lived with no other thought
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Than to love and be loved by me;
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I was a child and she was a child,
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In this kingdom by the sea:
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But we loved with a love that was more than love
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I and my annabel lee;
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With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
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Coveted her and me;
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And this was the reason that, long ago,
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In this kingdom by the sea,
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A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
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My beautiful annabel lee;
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So that her high-born kinsman came
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And bore her away from me,
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To shut her up in a sepulchre
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In this kingdom by the sea.
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The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
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Went envying her and me
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Yes! that was the reason (as all men know,
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In this kingdom by the sea)
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That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
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Chilling and killing my annabel lee;
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But our love it was stronger by far than the love
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Of those who were older than we
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Of many far wiser than we
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And neither the angels in heaven above,
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Nor the demons down under the sea,
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Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
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Of the beautiful annabel lee,
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For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
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Of the beautiful annabel lee;
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And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
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Of the beautiful annabel lee;
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And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
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Of my darling .. my darling .. my life and my bride,
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In the sepulchre there by the sea,
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In her tomb by the sounding sea
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Annabel Lee - The Bells
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Lou Reed |