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 ness of life, and that sense of realness, and the shining of the sun would be of new meaning.

"It may be," said my friend Annabel Lee, "that we will have to go still farther into the wilderness before the message comes, and it may be also that it will not come for many years.

"But it is in all ways comforting to know there is such a thing."

More than I considered the message that might come, I considered the voice with no hardness but with softness, and the lily face of my friend Annabel Lee.