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Text: Edgar Allan Poe, "Eulalie" (A), "Hirst" manuscript, early 1844




[[This version has the changes applied]]
Eulalie

     I dwelt alone
     In a world of moan,
And my soul was a stagnant tide,
Till the fair and gentle Eulalie became my blushing bride —
Till the yellow-haired young Eulalie became my smiling bride.

     And ah! less bright
     The stars of the night
Than the eyes of the radiant girl,
     And never a flake
     Their lustre can make
Of the vapor and gold and pearl,
Can vie with the sweet young Eulalie's most unregarded curl —
Can compare with the bright-eyed Eulalie's most humble and careless curl.

     Now Doubt — now Pain —
     Come never again,
For her soul gives me sigh for sigh,
     And all day long
     Shines bright and strong
Astarte within the sky,
And ever to it dear Eulalie upturns her matron eye —
And ever to it young Eulalie upturns her violet eye.




[[This version gives the text as originally printed, with indications for
Poe's changes]]
Eulalie

     I dwelt alone
     In a world of moan,
And my soul was a stagnant tide,
Till the fair and gentle Eulalie became my >>smil<< <blushing> bride —
Till the yellow-haired young Eulalie became my smiling bride.

     And ah! less bright
     The stars of the night
Than the eyes of the radiant girl,
     And never a flake
     Their lustre can make
Of the vapor and gold and pearl,
Can vie with the sweet young Eulalie's most unregarded curl —
Can compare with the bright-eyed Eulalie's most humble and careless curl.

     Now Doubt — now Pain —
     Come never again,
For her soul gives me sigh for sigh,
     And all day long
     Shines bright and strong
Astarte within the sky,
And ever to it dear Eulalie upturns her matron eye —
And ever to it young Eulalie upturns her violet eye.








Notes:

This manuscript was once owned by Poe's friend, Henry Beck Hirst. It is now in the Humanities Research Center, University of Texas at Austin. Mabbott (Poems, 1:348) appears to assign the date of 1844 based on several facts. The text suggests an earlier form than that published in the American Review of July 1845. Poe left Philadelphia early in 1844, and Mabbott therefore presumes that it was given to Hirst before Poe and his family moved to New York. Hirst published a poem called "Eulalie Vere" in The Coming of the Mammoth, a copy of which was inscribed to Poe as "June 1845." The same poem had been printed in Snowden's Ladies' Companion for  June 1843, but with the title "Elenor Long." The publication in 1845 of Hirst's poem suggests that he had seen Poe's poem prior to publication in the American Review, but after his own poem was published in June 1843.





 
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