LENORE Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll! a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river: The text of A Paan, inasmuch as it differs markedly from later versions of Lenore, is presented here in its entirety, the text of 1831 being followed. The variations from the Southern Literary Messenger are given in the bracketed footnotes. Below it is given the Pioneer text, which is in verbal agreement, except in line 4, with the text of the Saturday Museum. Come, let the burial rite be read - the funeral song be sung! 5 "Wretches! ye loved her for her wealth, and ye hated her for her pride; 10 And, when she fell in feeble health, ye blessed her that she died: Peccavimus; yet rave not thus! but let a Sabbath song Go up to God so solemnly the dead may feel no wrong! The sweet Lenore hath gone before, with Hope that flew beside, 15 The life upon her yellow hair, but not within her eyes — Go up to God so mournfully that she may feel no wrong! 13 yet but (all other texts); but: and (all other texts). 30 35 40 avaunt! to friends from fiends the indignant ghost is From Hell unto a high estate within the utmost Heaven From moan and groan to a golden throne beside the King of Heaven: 20 Avaunt!-avaunt! to friends from fiends: To friends above, from fiends below (Graham's, B.J., 1845, P.P.A.). 20-26 Graham's, B.J., 1845, and P.P.A. transpose these lines so that the sequence becomes 25, 26, 23, 24, 20, 21, 22. 21 within the utmost: far up within the (all other texts). 22 moan: grief (all other texts except B.J. and Graham's). 23 Let no bell toll, then, lest her soul, amid its hallowed mirth, THE VALLEY OF UNREST Once it smiled a silent dell (1831) [A PEAN (1831)] XI. Therefore, to thee this night With a Pæan of old days. The text of The Valley Nis differs radically from later versions of The Valley of Unrest, and hence is given here in its entirety, the edition of 1831 being followed. The variations of the Southern Literary Messenger are given at the end in brackets. 23 then: Omitted in Graham's, B.J., 1845, P.P.A.; sweet is inserted before "soul" by Graham's, B.J., 1845, and P.P.A. 25 And I: Avaunt (Graham's, B.J., 1845, P.P.A.). Title The Valley Nis (1831, S. L.M.). |