The poetical works of Edgar Allan Poe, with original memoir. Illustrated by F. R. Pickersgill, R.A., John Tenniel, Birket Foster, Felix Darlay [and others]

ROMANCE.
/ jIOi MANCE, who loves to nod and sing,
With drowsy head and folded wing,. ~)8 Among the green leaves as they shake
Far down within some shadowy lake,
~~F. {) To me a painted paroquet
~-~,: Hath been-a most familiar bird —
Taught me my alphabet to sayTo lisp my very earliest word
While in the wild wood I did lie,
A child-with a most knowing eye.
Of late, eternal Condor years
So shake the very heaven on high
With tumult as they thunder by,
I have no time for idle cares
Through gazing on the unquiet sky.
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