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Text: Edgar Allan Poe, "To One Departed" (C), Saturday Museum (Philadelphia), March 4, 1843, p. 1, col. 8

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TO ONE DEPARTED.

Seraph! thy memory is to me
    Like some enchanted far-off isle
In some tumultuous sea —
Some ocean vexed as it may be
    With storms; but where, meanwhile,
Serenest skies continually
    Just o'er that one bright island smile.

For 'mid the earnest cares and woes
    That crowd around my earthly path,
(Sad path, alas! where grows
Not ev'n one lonely rose,)
    My soul at least a solace hath
In dreams of thee, and therein knows
An Eden of bland repose.


	Notes: This poem is quoted as part of a biographical article on Poe by his friend, Henry Beck Hirst. The article is full of factual errors, likely attributable to Poe himself.

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