Text: Edgar Allan Poe, “For Annie” (Comparative Text)

 

Title: For Annie.

 

 

Line-01-001 {{1849-01: Thank //1849-02: THANK }} Heaven! — the crisis —

Line-01-002 [[indent]] The danger is past,

Line-01-003 And the lingering illness

Line-01-004 [[indent]] Is over at last —

Line-01-005 And the fever called “Living”

Line-01-006 [[indent]] Is conquered at last.

{{1849-01: —— }}

Line-01-007 Sadly, I know,

Line-01-008 [[indent]] I am shorn of my strength,

Line-01-009 And no muscle I move

Line-01-010 [[indent]] As I lie at full length —

Line-01-011 But no matter! — I feel

Line-01-012 [[indent]] I am better at length.

{{1849-01: —— }}

Line-01-013 And I rest so composedly,

Line-01-014 [[indent]] Now, in my bed,

Line-01-015 That any beholder

Line-01-016 [[indent]] Might fancy me dead —

Line-01-017 Might start at beholding me,

Line-01-018 [[indent]] Thinking me dead.

{{1849-01: —— }}

Line-01-019 The moaning and groaning,

Line-01-020 [[indent]] The sighing and sobbing {{1849-01: , //1849-02: [[,]] }}

Line-01-021 Are quieted now,

Line-01-022 [[indent]] With that horrible throbbing

Line-01-023 At heart: — ah {{1849-01: , }} that horrible {{1849-01: [[,]] //1849-02: , }}

Line-01-024 [[indent]] Horrible throbbing!

{{1849-01: —— }}

Line-01-025 The sickness — the nausea —

Line-01-026 [[indent]] The pitiless pain —

Line-01-027 Have ceased, with the fever

Line-01-028 [[indent]] That maddened my brain —

Line-01-029 With the fever called “Living”

Line-01-030 [[indent]] That burned in my brain.

{{1849-01: —— }}

Line-01-031 And oh! of all tortures

Line-01-032 [[indent]] That torture the worst

Line-01-033 Has abated — the terrible

Line-01-034 [[indent]] Torture of thirst

Line-01-035 For the napthaline rivers

Line-01-036 [[indent]] Of Passion accurst: —

Line-01-037 I have drank of a water

Line-01-038 [[indent]] That quenches all thirst: —

{{1849-01: —— }}

Line-01-039 Of a water that flows,

Line-01-040 [[indent]] With a lullaby sound,

Line-01-041 From a spring but a very few

Line-01-042 [[indent]] Feet under ground —

Line-01-043 From a cavern not very far

Line-01-044 [[indent]] Down under ground.

{{1849-01: —— }}

Line-01-045 And ah! let it never

Line-01-046 [[indent]] Be foolishly said

Line-01-047 That my room it is gloomy

Line-01-048 [[indent]] And narrow my bed;

Line-01-049 For man never slept

Line-01-050 [[indent]] In a different bed —

Line-01-051 And, to sleep, you must slumber

{{1849-01: —— }}

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