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'Twas in the prime of summer time	A
An evening calm and cool	B
And four and twenty happy boys	C
Came bounding out of school	B
There were some that ran and some that leapt	D
Like troutlets in a pool	B
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Away they sped with gamesome minds	E
And souls untouched by sin	F
To a level mead they came and there	G
They drave the wickets in	F
Pleasantly shone the setting sun	H
Over the town of Lynn	F
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Like sportive deer they coursed about	I
And shouted as they ran	J
Turning to mirth all things of earth	K
As only boyhood can	J
But the Usher sat remote from all	L
A melancholy man	J
	-
His hat was off his vest apart	M
To catch heaven's blessed breeze	N
For a burning thought was in his brow	O
And his bosom ill at ease	N
So he leaned his head on his hands and read	P
The book upon his knees	N
	-
Leaf after leaf he turned it o'er	Q
Nor ever glanced aside	R
For the peace of his soul he read that book	S
In the golden eventide	R
Much study had made him very lean	T
And pale and leaden eyed	R
	-
At last he shut the pond'rous tome	U
With a fast and fervent grasp	V
He strained the dusky covers close	W
And fixed the brazen hasp	V
'Oh God could I so close my mind	R
And clasp it with a clasp '	-
	-
Then leaping on his feet upright	R
Some moody turns he took	S
Now up the mead then down the mead	R
And past a shady nook	S
And lo he saw a little boy	X
That pored upon a book	S
	-
'My gentle lad what is't you read	R
Romance or fairy fable	Y
Or is it some historic page	Z
Of kings and crowns unstable '	-
The young boy gave an upward glance	A2
'It is 'The Death of Abel ''	-
	-
The Usher took six hasty strides	B2
As smit with sudden pain	C2
Six hasty strides beyond the place	D2
Then slowly back again	E2
And down he sat beside the lad	R
And talked with him of Cain	C2
	-
And long since then of bloody men	E2
Whose deeds tradition saves	F2
Of lonely folks cut off unseen	T
And hid in sudden graves	F2
Of horrid stabs in groves forlorn	G2
And murders done in caves	F2
	-
And how the sprites of injured men	E2
Shriek upward from the sod	R
Ay how the ghostly hand will point	R
To show the burial clod	R
And unknown facts of guilty acts	H2
Are seen in dreams from God	R
	-
He told how murderers walk the earth	K
Beneath the curse of Cain	C2
With crimson clouds before their eyes	I2
And flames about their brain	C2
For blood has left upon their souls	J2
Its everlasting stain	C2
	-
'And well ' quoth he 'I know for truth	K2
Their pangs must be extreme	L2
Woe woe unutterable woe	M2
Who spill life's sacred stream	L2
For why Methought last night I wrought	R
A murder in a dream	L2
	-
One that had never done me wrong	N2
A feeble man and old	R
I led him to a lonely field	R
The moon shone clear and cold	R
Now here said I this man shall die	R
And I will have his gold	R
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'Two sudden blows with a ragged stick	O2
And one with a heavy stone	P2
One hurried gash with a hasty knife	Q2
And then the deed was done	H
There was nothing lying at my foot	R
But lifeless flesh and bone	P2
	-
'Nothing but lifeless flesh and bone	P2
That could not do me ill	R2
And yet I feared him all the more	S2
For lying there so still	R2
There was a manhood in his look	S
That murder could not kill '	-
	-
'And lo the universal air	G
Seemed lit with ghastly flame	T2
Ten thousand thousand dreadful eyes	I2
Were looking down in blame	T2
I took the dead man by his hand	R
And called upon his name	T2
	-
'O God it made me quake to see	U2
Such sense within the slain	C2
But when I touched the lifeless clay	V2
The blood gushed out amain	C2
For every clot a burning spot	R
Was scorching in my brain	C2
	-
'My head was like an ardent coal	W2
My heart as solid ice	X2
My wretched wretched soul I knew	C2
Was at the Devil's price	X2
A dozen times I groaned the dead	R
Had never groaned but twice	X2
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'And now from forth the frowning sky	R
From the Heaven's topmost height	R
I heard a voice the awful voice	Y2
Of the blood avenging sprite	R
'Thou guilty man take up thy dead	R
And hide it from my sight '	-
	-
'I took the dreary body up	V
And cast it in a stream	L2
A sluggish water black as ink	Z2
The depth was so extreme	L2
My gentle boy remember this	A3
Is nothing but a dream	L2
	-
'Down went the corse with a hollow plunge	B3
And vanished in the pool	B
Anon I cleansed my bloody hands	C3
And washed my forehead cool	B
And sat among the urchins young	D3
That evening in the school	B
	-
'Oh Heaven to think of their white souls	J2
And mine so black and grim	E3
I could not share in childish prayer	G
Nor join in Evening Hymn	E3
Like a Devil of the Pit I seemed	R
'Mid holy Cherubim	E3
	-
'And peace went with them one and all	L
And each calm pillow spread	R
But Guilt was my grim Chamberlain	C2
That lighted me to bed	R
And drew my midnight curtains round	R
With fingers bloody red	R
	-
'All night I lay in agony	C2
In anguish dark and deep	V
My fevered eyes I dared not close	W
But stared aghast at Sleep	V
For Sin had rendered unto her	Q
The keys of Hell to keep	V
	-
'All night I lay in agony	C2
From weary chime to chime	E3
With one besetting horrid hint	R
That racked me all the time	E3
A mighty yearning like the first	R
Fierce impulse unto crime	E3
	-
'One stern tyrannic thought that made	R
All other thoughts its slave	F3
Stronger and stronger every pulse	G3
Did that temptation crave	F3
Still urging me to go and see	C2
The Dead Man in his grave	F3
	-
'Heavily I rose up as soon	C2
As light was in the sky	R
And sought the black accurs d pool	B
With a wild misgiving eye	R
And I saw the Dead in the river bed	R
For the faithless stream was dry	R
	-
'Merrily rose the lark and shook	S
The dewdrop from its wing	H3
But I never marked its morning flight	R
I never heard it sing	H3
For I was stooping once again	C2
Under the horrid thing	H3
	-
'With breathless speed like a soul in chase	D2
I took him up and ran	C2
There was no time to dig a grave	F3
Before the day began	C2
In a lonesome wood with heaps of leaves	I3
I hid the murdered man	C2
	-
'And all that day I read in school	B
But my thought was otherwhere	R
As soon as the midday task was done	C2
In secret I went there	R
And a mighty wind had swept the leaves	I3
And still the corpse was bare	R
	-
'Then down I cast me on my face	D2
And first began to weep	V
For I knew my secret then was one	C2
That earth refused to keep	V
Or land or sea though he should be	C2
Ten thousand fathoms deep	V
	-
'So wills the fierce avenging Sprite	R
Till blood for blood atones	D2
Ay though he's buried in a cave	F3
And trodden down with stones	D2
And years have rotted off his flesh	J3
The world shall see his bones	D2
	-
'Oh God that horrid horrid dream	E3
Besets me now awake	K3
Again again with dizzy brain	C2
The human life I take	K3
And my red right hand grows raging hot	R
Like Cranmer's at the stake	K3
	-
'And still no peace for the restless clay	V2
Will wave or mould allow	O
The horrid thing pursues my soul	W2
It stands before me now '	-
The fearful Boy looked up and saw	D2
Huge drops upon his brow	O
	-
That very night while gentle sleep	V
The urchin's eyelids kissed	R
Two stern faced men set out from Lynn	C2
Through the cold and heavy mist	R
And Eugene Aram walked between	C2
With gyves upon his wrist	R