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Seq: 8.
Title: TO M——
Stanza: 1
Line-01-001: O! I care not that my earthly lot
Line-01-002: [[indent]] Hath — little of Earth in it —
Line-01-003: That years of love have been forgot
Line-01-004: [[indent]] In the fever of a minute —
Stanza: 2
Line-01-005: I heed not that the desolate
Line-01-006: [[indent]] Are happier, sweet, than I —
Line-01-007: But that you meddle with my fate
Line-01-008: [[indent]] Who am a passer-by.
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Stanza: 3
Line-01-009: It is not that my founts of bliss
Line-01-010: [[indent]] Are gushing — strange! with tears —
Line-01-011: Or that the thrill of a single kiss
Line-01-012: [[indent]] Hath palsied many years —
Stanza: 4
Line-01-013: ‘Tis not that the flowers of twenty springs
Line-01-014: [[indent]] Which have wither’d as they rose [page 69:]
Line-01-015: Lie dead on my heart-strings
Line-01-016: [[indent]] With the weight of an age of snows.
Stanza: 5
Line-01-017: Nor that the grass — O! may it thrive!
Line-01-018: [[indent]] On my grave is growing or grown —
Line-01-019: But that, while I am dead yet alive
Line-01-020: [[indent]] I cannot be, lady, alone.
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[S:0 - comparative] - Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore - Works - Poems - To M— (Study Text - ATMP-EH)