Line-01-001: {{1843-01: AH //1843-02: Ah }} , broken is the golden bowl!

Line-01-002: [[indented]] The spirit flown forever!

Line-01-003: Let the bell toll! {{1843-01: — //1843-02: [[new line]] }} A saintly soul

Line-01-004: [[indented]] {{1843-01: Glides down //1843-02: Floats on }} the Stygian river!

Line-01-005: [[indented]] And let the burial rite be read {{1843-02: ! }} —

Line-01-006: [[indented]] The funeral song be sung —

Line-01-007: [[indented]] A dirge for the most lovely dead

Line-01-008: [[indented]] That ever died so young!

Line-01-009: [[indented]] And, Guy De Vere,

Line-01-010: [[indented]] Hast thou no tear?

Line-01-011: [[indented]] Weep now or nevermore!

Line-01-012: [[indented]] See {{1843-01: , //1843-02: ! }} on yon drear

Line-01-013: [[indented]] And rigid bier {{1843-01: , }}

Line-01-014: [[indented]] Low lies thy love {{1843-02: , }} Lenore!

 

Line-01-015: “Yon heir, whose cheeks of pallid hue

Line-01-016: [[indented]] With tears are streaming wet,

Line-01-017: Sees only, through

Line-01-018: Their crocodile dew,

Line-01-019: [[indented]] A vacant coronet —

Line-01-020: [[indented]] False friends! ye {{1843-01: loved // 1843-02: lov’d }} her for her wealth {{1843-02: , }}

Line-01-021: [[indented]] And hated her for her pride,

Line-01-022: [[indented]] And, when she fell in feeble health,

Line-01-023: [[indented]] Ye {{1843-01: blessed //1843-02: bless’d }} her — that she died.

Line-01-024: [[indented]] How shall the ritual, then, be read?

Line-01-025: [[indented]] The requiem {{1843-01: how //1843-02: how }} be sung

Line-01-026: [[indented]] For her most wrong’d of all the dead

Line-01-027: [[indented]] That ever died so young?”

 

Line-01-028: Peccavimus {{1843-01: ! //1843-02: ; }}

Line-01-029: But rave not thus!

Line-01-030: [[indented]] And let the solemn song

Line-01-031: Go up to God so mournfully that she {{1843-02: [[new line]] }} may feel no wrong!

Line-01-032: [[indented]] The sweet Lenore

Line-01-033: [[indented]] Hath “gone before”

Line-01-034: [[indented]] With young hope at her side,

Line-01-035: [[indented]] And thou art wild

Line-01-036: [[indented]] For the dear child

Line-01-037: [[indented]] That should have been thy bride —

Line-01-038: [[indented]] For her, the fair

Line-01-039: [[indented]] And debonair,

Line-01-040: [[indented]] That now so lowly lies —

Line-01-041: [[indented]] The life still there {{1843-02: , }}

Line-01-042: [[indented]] Upon her hair,

Line-01-043: [[indented]] The death upon her eyes.

 

Line-01-044: “Avaunt {{1843-01: ! }} — to-night

Line-01-045: My heart is light —

Line-01-046: [[indented]] No dirge will I upraise,

Line-01-047: But waft the angel on her flight

Line-01-048: [[indented]] With a {{1843-01: Pæan //1843-02: Pœan [[Pæan]] }} of old days!

Line-01-049: [[indented]] Let no bell toll!

Line-01-050: [[indented]] Lest her sweet soul,

Line-01-051: [[indented]] Amid its hallow’d mirth {{1843-01: , }}

Line-01-052: [[indented]] Should catch the note {{1843-02: , }}

Line-01-053: [[indented]] As it doth float

Line-01-054: [[indented]] Up from the {{1843-01: damned //1843-02: damnéd }} earth —

Line-01-055: [[indented]] To friends above, from fiends below, th’ {{1843-02: [[new line]] }} indignant ghost is riven —

Line-01-056: [[indented]] From grief and moan

Line-01-057: [[indented]] To a gold throne

Line-01-058: [[indented]] Beside the King of Heaven {{1843-01: ?[[!]]” //1843-02: ![[”]] }}