Text: Edgar Allan Poe, “Dream-Land” (Comparative Text)

 

Title: DREAM-LAND.

 

 

Line-01-001: [[indent]] BY a route obscure and lonely,

Line-01-002: [[indent]] Haunted by ill angels only,

Line-01-003: [[indent]] Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,

Line-01-004: [[indent]] On a black throne reigns upright,

Line-01-005: [[indent]] I have reached these lands but newly

Line-01-006: [[indent]] From an ultimate dim Thule —

Line-01-007:From a wild weird clime, that lieth, sublime,

Line-01-008: [[indent]] Out of SPACE — out of TIME.

 

Line-01-009: [[indent]] Bottomless vales and boundless floods,

Line-01-010: [[indent]] And chasms, and caves, and Titan woods,

Line-01-011: [[indent]] With forms that no man can discover

Line-01-012: [[indent]] For the dews that drip all over;

Line-01-013: [[indent]] {{1844-01: Mountains //1845-02: Fountains [[Mountains]] }} toppling evermore

Line-01-014: [[indent]] Into seas without a shore;

Line-01-015: [[indent]] Seas that restlessly aspire,

Line-01-016: [[indent]] Surging, unto skies of fire;

Line-01-017: [[indent]] Lakes that endlessly outspread

Line-01-018: [[indent]] Their lone waters, lone and dead, —

Line-01-019: [[indent]] Their still waters, still and chilly

Line-01-020: [[indent]] With the snows of the lolling lily.

 

 

Line-01-027: [[indent]] By the lakes that thus outspread

Line-01-028: [[indent]] Their lone waters, lone and dead, —

Line-01-029: [[indent]] Their sad waters, sad and chilly

Line-01-030: [[indent]] With the snows of the lolling lily, —

Line-01-031: [[indent]] By the mountain — near the river

Line-01-032: [[indent]] Murmuring lowly, murmuring ever, —

Line-01-033: [[indent]] By the {{1844-01: gray //1845-02: grey }} woods, — by the swamp

Line-01-034: [[indent]] Where the toad and the newt encamp, —

Line-01-035: [[indent]] By the dismal tarns and pools

Line-01-036: [[indent]] Where dwell the Ghouls, —

Line-01-037: [[indent]] By each spot the most unholy —

Line-01-038: [[indent]] In each nook most melancholy, —

Line-01-039: [[indent]] There the traveler meets aghast

Line-01-040: [[indent]] Sheeted Memories of the Past —

Line-01-041: [[indent]] Shrouded forms that start and sigh

Line-01-042: [[indent]] As they pass the wanderer by —

Line-01-043: [[indent]] White-robed forms of friends long given,

Line-01-044: [[indent]] In agony, to the worms, and Heaven.

Line-01-051: [[indent]] For the heart whose woes are legion

Line-01-052: [[indent]] ’T is a peaceful, soothing region —

Line-01-053: [[indent]] For the spirit that walks in shadow

Line-01-054: [[indent]] ’T is — oh ’t is an Eldorado!

Line-01-055: [[indent]] But the {{1844-01: traveler //1845-02: traveller [[traveler]] }} , traveling through it,

Line-01-056: [[indent]] May not — dare not openly view it;

Line-01-057: [[indent]] Never its {{1844-01: mysteries //1845-02: mysterics [[mysteries]] }} are exposed

Line-01-058: [[indent]] To the weak human eye {{1844-01: unclosed //1845-02: enclosed [[unclosed]] }} ;

Line-01-059: [[indent]] So wills the {{1844-01: King //1845-02: king }} , who hath forbid

Line-01-060: [[indent]] The uplifting of the fringéd lid;

Line-01-061: [[indent]] And thus the sad Soul that here passes

Line-01-062: [[indent]] Beholds it but through darkened glasses.

 

Line-01-063: [[indent]] By a route obscure and lonely,

Line-01-064: [[indent]] Haunted by ill angels only,

Line-01-065: [[indent]] Where an Eidolon, named NIGHT,

Line-01-066: [[indent]] On a black throne reigns upright,

Line-01-067: [[indent]] I have wandered home but newly

Line-01-068: [[indent]] From this ultimate dim Thule.