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23 lines
944 B
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1840
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SONNET- SILENCE
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by Edgar Allan Poe
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There are some qualities- some incorporate things,
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That have a double life, which thus is made
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A type of that twin entity which springs
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From matter and light, evinced in solid and shade.
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There is a two-fold Silence- sea and shore-
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Body and soul. One dwells in lonely places,
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Newly with grass o'ergrown; some solemn graces,
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Some human memories and tearful lore,
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Render him terrorless: his name's "No More."
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He is the corporate Silence: dread him not!
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No power hath he of evil in himself;
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But should some urgent fate (untimely lot!)
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Bring thee to meet his shadow (nameless elf,
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That haunteth the lone regions where hath trod
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No foot of man,) commend thyself to God!
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-THE END-
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