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... "Tell me truly, I implore--
Is there--_is_ there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!"


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"Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore."


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"'Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!' I shrieked, upstarting."


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"'Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!'"


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