Edgar Allan Poe: A Paean

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How shall the burial rite be read?
The solemn song be sung?
The requiem for the loveliest dead,
That ever died so young?
 
Edgar Allan Poe, A Paean, I
 
Oct. 12, 2023; Horror

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