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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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