Text: Edgar Allan Poe (ed. James H. Whitty), “Eldorado,” The Complete Poems of Edgar Allan Poe, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1911, p. 79


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[page 79, unnumbered:]

ELDORADO

GAILY bedight,

A gallant knight,

In sunshine and in shadow,

Had journeyed long,

Singing a song,

In search of Eldorado.

But he grew old —

This knight so bold —

And o’er his heart a shadow

Fell as he found

No spot of ground

That looked like Eldorado.

And, as his strength

Failed him at length,

He met a pilgrim shadow —

“Shadow,” said he,

“Where can it be —

This land of Eldorado?”

“Over the Mountains

Of the Moon,

Down the Valley of the Shadow,

Ride, boldly ride,”

The shade replied, —

“If you seek for Eldorado!”

 


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Notes:

None.

 

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