The Lake: To -
Edgar Allan Poe
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Nathan Wright Shirley
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mp In Spring of youth it was my
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To haunt of the wide world a spot lot
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The which I could not
love the
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So love - ly was the
lone - li - ness
2005, by Nathan Shirley - www.NathanShirley.org
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Andthe t - all pines that tower'd a
Of a wi - ld lake,with black rock bound,
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But
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when
the Night had thrown her
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that spot, as
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by
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Mur mur-ing in
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And the mys -tic
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then I would a -
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fright,
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mine
Could teach or
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thine.
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Nor love
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bribe me to de-fine
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fi tting grave
For him who thence could
so lace bring
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To his loneim-ag - in ing
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f Whose so - li - ta - ry soul could make
that dim lake.
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