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"What do you think," said my friend Annabel Lee, "is it not full of power and poetry and pathos?"

"Yes, it could not in itself be better," I replied. "And it has the simplicity."

"And pretends nothing," said Annabel Lee.

"And who wrote it?" I asked.

"Oh, some forgotten Englishwoman," said Annabel Lee. "I believe her name was Edwards. She perhaps wrote a poem, now and then, and died."

"And are the poems forgotten, also?" I inquired.

"Yes, forgotten, except by a few. But when they remember them, they remember them long."