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Text: Edgar Allan Poe, "To M——-" (D), undated manuscript, 1845-1849




To  ———.

I heed not that my earthly lot
    Hath —— little of Earth in it —
That years of love have been forgot
    In the hatred of a minute: —
I mourn not that the desolate
    Are happier, sweet, than I,
But that you sorrow for my fate
    Who am a passer by.

E. A. P.
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Notes:

This manuscript is comprised of a revised excerpt from "To M——." This manuscript was in the possession of Rufus W. Griswold. Poe presumably revised the poem for Mrs. Frances S. Osgood. The manuscript was reproduced in facsimile by George E. Woodberry in The Life of Edgar Allan Poe: Personal and Literary, Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1909,  II, between pages 328 and 329.





 
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