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To M-- (1830)

O! I care not that my earthly lot
  Hath little of Earth in it,
That years of love have been forgot
  In the fever of a minute:

I heed not that the desolate
  Are happier, sweet, than I,
But that you meddle with my fate
  Who am a passer by.

It is not that my founts of bliss
  Are gushing- strange! with tears-
Or that the thrill of a single kiss
  Hath palsied many years-

'Tis not that the flowers of twenty springs
  Which have wither'd as they rose
Lie dead on my heart-strings
  With the weight of an age of snows.

Not that the grass- O! may it thrive!
  On my grave is growing or grown-
But that, while I am dead yet alive
  I cannot be, lady, alone. 

Poem by Edgar Allan Poe

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