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Edgar Allan Poe - RomanceEdgar Allan Poe - Romance
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Romance, who loves to nod and sing,      With drowsy head and folded wing,      Among the green leaves as they shake      Far down within some shadowy lake,      To me a painted paroquet      Hath been- a most familiar bird-      Taught me my alphabet to say-      To lisp my very earliest word      While in the wild wood I did lie,      A child- with a most knowing eye.      Of late, eternal Condor years      So shake the very Heaven on high      With tumult as they thunder by,      I have no time for idle cares      Through gazing on the unquiet sky.      And when an hour with calmer wings      Its down upon my spirit flings-      That little time with lyre and rhyme      To while away- forbidden things!      My heart would feel to be a crime      Unless it trembled with the strings.
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