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And the stars never rise but I see the bright eyes
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Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
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And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
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Of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride,
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In her sepulchre there by the sea--
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In her tomb by the side of the sea."
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So, that's the whole poem.
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Humbert is drawing on a nineteenth-century Romantic tradition
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that still has a certain power.
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You can hear that incantatory voice of Poe's speaker in the poem making
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this doomed love into something aesthetic,
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but it's also a kind of cliche.