Text: Edgar Allan Poe,
"[Prefatory Material to 'Al Aaraaf']," Poems,
1831, pp. 77-79
[page 77, unnumbered:]
AL AARAAF.
[page 78, unnumbered:]
What has night to do with sleep?
COMUS.
[page 79, unnumbered:]
"A star was discovered by Tycho
Brahe
which
burst forth, in a moment,
with a splendor surpassing that of Jupiter —
then gradually faded
away and became invisible to the naked eye."
[page 80 is blank]
Notes:
The quotation from "Comus" is from line 22 of John Milton's
(1608-1674)
morality play, written about 1634.
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