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I	A
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'Twas in the prime of summer time	B
An evening calm and cool	C
And four and twenty happy boys	D
Came bounding out of school	C
There were some that ran and some that leapt	E
Like troutlets in a pool	C
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II	A
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Away they sped with gamesome minds	F
And souls untouch'd by sin	G
To a level mead they came and there	H
They drave the wickets in	G
Pleasantly shone the setting sun	I
Over the town of Lynn	G
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III	A
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Like sportive deer they coursed about	J
And shouted as they ran	K
Turning to mirth all things of earth	L
As only boyhood can	K
But the Usher sat remote from all	M
A melancholy man	K
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IV	N
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His hat was off his vest apart	O
To catch heaven's blessed breeze	P
For a burning thought was in his brow	Q
And his bosom ill at ease	P
So he lean'd his head on his hands and read	R
The book between his knees	P
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V	N
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Leaf after leaf he turn'd it o'er	S
Nor ever glanced aside	T
For the peace of his soul he read that book	U
In the golden eventide	T
Much study had made him very lean	V
And pale and leaden eyed	T
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VI	N
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At last he shut the ponderous tome	W
With a fast and fervent grasp	X
He strain'd the dusky covers close	Y
And fix'd the brazen hasp	X
Oh God could I so close my mind	T
And clasp it with a clasp	X
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VII	N
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Then leaping on his feet upright	T
Some moody turns he took	U
Now up the mead then down the mead	T
And past a shady nook	U
And lo he saw a little boy	Z
That pored upon a book	U
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VIII	N
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My gentle lad what is't you read	T
Romance or fairy fable	A2
Of is it some historic page	B2
Or kings and crowns unstable	A2
The young boy gave an upward glance	C2
It is 'The Death of Abel '	-
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IX	C2
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The Usher took six hasty strides	C2
As smit with sudden pain	D2
Six hasty strides beyond the place	C2
Then slowly back again	E2
And down he sat beside the lad	T
And talk'd with him of Cain	D2
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X	C2
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And long since then of bloody men	E2
Whose deeds tradition saves	C2
Of lonely folk cut off unseen	V
And hid in sudden graves	C2
Of horrid stabs in groves forlorn	F2
And murders done in caves	C2
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XI	C2
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And how the sprites of injured men	E2
Shriek upward from the sod	T
Ay how the ghostly hand will point	T
To show the burial clod	T
And unknown facts of guilty acts	C2
Are seen in dreams from God	T
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XII	C2
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He told how murderers walk the earth	L
Beneath the curse of Cain	D2
With crimson clouds before their eyes	C2
And flames about their brain	D2
For blood has left upon their souls	C2
Its everlasting stain	D2
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XIII	C2
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And well quoth he I know for truth	G2
Their pangs must be extreme	H2
Woe woe unutterable woe	I2
Who spill life's sacred stream	H2
For why Methought last night I wrought	T
A murder in a dream	H2
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XIV	N
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One that had never done me wrong	J2
A feeble man and old	T
I led him to a lonely field	T
The moon shone clear and cold	T
Now here said I this man shall die	T
And I will have his gold	T
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XV	N
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Two sudden blows with a ragged stick	K2
And one with a heavy stone	L2
One hurried gash with a hasty knife	N
And then the deed was done	I
There was nothing lying at my foot	T
But lifeless flesh and bone	L2
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XVI	N
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Nothing but lifeless flesh and bone	L2
That could not do me ill	M2
And yet I feared him all the more	N2
For lying there so still	M2
There was a manhood in his look	U
That murder could not kill	M2
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XVII	N
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And lo the universal air	H
Seemed lit with ghastly flame	O2
Ten thousand thousand dreadful eyes	C2
Were looking down in blame	O2
I took the dead man by his hand	T
And called upon his name	O2
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XVIII	N
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Oh God it made me quake to see	C2
Such sense within the slain	D2
But when I touched the lifeless clay	P2
The blood gush'd out amain	D2
For every clot a burning spot	T
Was scorching in my brain	D2
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XIX	C2
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My head was like an ardent coal	Q2
My heart as solid ice	C2
My wretched wretched soul I knew	D2
Was at the Devil's price	C2
A dozen times I groan'd the dead	T
Had never groan'd but twice	C2
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XX	C2
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And now from forth the frowning sky	T
From the Heaven's topmost height	T
I heard a voice the awful voice	C2
Of the blood avenging Sprite	T
Thou guilty man take up thy dead	T
And hide it from my sight	T
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XXI	C2
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I took the dreary body up	X
And cast it in a stream	H2
A sluggish water black as ink	R2
The depth was so extreme	H2
My gentle Boy remember this	C2
Is nothing but a dream	H2
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XXII	C2
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Down went the corse with a hollow plunge	S2
And vanish'd in the pool	C
Anon I cleansed my bloody hands	C2
And wash'd my forehead cool	C
And sat among the urchins young	T2
That evening in the school	C
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XXIII	C2
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Oh Heaven to think of their white souls	C2
And mine so black and grim	U2
I could not share in childish prayer	H
Nor join in Evening Hymn	U2
Like a Devil of the Pit I seem'd	T
'Mid holy Cherubim	U2
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XXIV	N
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And peace went with them one and all	M
And each calm pillow spread	T
But Guilt was my grim Chamberlain	D2
That lighted me to bed	T
And drew my midnight curtains round	T
With fingers bloody red	T
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XXV	N
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All night I lay in agony	D2
In anguish dark and deep	X
My fever'd eyes I dared not close	C2
But stared aghast at Sleep	X
For Sin had render'd unto her	S
The keys of Hell to keep	X
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XXVI	N
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All night I lay in agony	D2
From weary chime to chime	U2
With one besetting horrid hint	T
That rack'd me all the time	U2
A mighty yearning like the first	T
Fierce impulse unto crime	U2
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XXVII	N
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One stern tyrannic thought that made	T
All other thoughts its slave	N
Stronger and stronger every pulse	C2
Did that temptation crave	N
Still urging me to go and see	D2
The Dead Man in his grave	N
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XXVIII	N
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Heavily I rose up as soon	D2
As light was in the sky	T
And sought the black accursed pool	C
With a wild misgiving eye	T
And I saw the Dead in the river bed	T
For the faithless stream was dry	T
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XXIX	D2
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Merrily rose the lark and shook	U
The dew drop from its wing	V2
But I never mark'd its morning flight	T
I never heard it sing	V2
For I was stooping once again	D2
Under the horrid thing	V2
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XXX	D2
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With breathless speed like a soul in chase	D2
I took him up and ran	D2
There was no time to dig a grave	N
Before the day began	D2
In a lonesome wood with heaps of leaves	D2
I hid the murder'd man	D2
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XXXI	D2
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And all that day I read in school	C
But my thought was other where	H
As soon as the mid day task was done	D2
In secret I was there	H
And a mighty wind had swept the leaves	D2
And still the corse was bare	H
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XXXII	D2
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Then down I cast me on my face	D2
And first began to weep	X
For I knew my secret then was one	D2
That earth refused to keep	X
Or land or sea though he should be	D2
Ten thousand fathoms deep	X
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XXXIII	D2
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So wills the fierce avenging Sprite	T
Till blood for blood atones	D2
Ay though he's buried in a cave	N
And trodden down with stones	D2
And years have rotted off his flesh	W2
The world shall see his bones	D2
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XXXIV	N
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Oh God that horrid horrid dream	U2
Besets me now awake	X2
Again again with dizzy brain	D2
The human life I take	X2
And my red right hand grows raging hot	T
Like Cranmer's at the stake	X2
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XXXV	N
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And still no peace for the restless clay	P2
Will wave or mould allow	Q
The horrid thing pursues my soul	Q2
It stands before me now	Q
The fearful Boy look'd up and saw	D2
Huge drops upon his brow	Q
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XXXVI	N
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That very night while gentle sleep	X
The urchin eyelids kiss'd	T
Two stern faced men set out from Lynn	D2
Through the cold and heavy mist	T
And Eugene Aram walk'd between	D2
With gyves upon his wrist	T