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ND after some days my friend Annabel Lee wrote me this upon a square of rice paper:

Boston,—Monday. Dear Mary MacLane:—Don't you know a gorgon is the knowingest thing in the land?

You may believe what your friend says of fair lilies.

But have I ever said that I am a fair lily?

As for my eyes—they are good chiefly to see with. And they are bad for many things.

Yes—get thee home soon, child.

I miss you when I come to deck me