(e.a.poe) Jeff performed a reading of this poem by edgar allan poe for the tribute closed on account of rabies, produced by hal willner.
The were ashen and sober, The leaves they were and sere, The leaves they were withering and It was in the lonesome october Of my most immemorial It was hard by the dim of auber, In the misty mid of weir, It was down by the tarn of auber, In the woodland of weir.
Here once, an alley, titanic, Of cypress, I with my soul, Of cypress, psyche, my soul. These were when my heart was volcanic As the scoriac rivers roll, As the lavas restlessly roll Their currents down yaaneck In the climes of the pole, That groan as roll down mount yaaneck In the of the boreal pole.
Our talk had serious and sober, But our they were palsied and sere, Our were treacherous and sere, For we not the month was october, And we marked not the night of the (ah, of all nights in the year!); We noted not the dim of auber (though once we had down here), Remembered not the dank of auber, Nor the ghoul-haunted of weir.
And now, as the was senescent And star-dials to morn, As the star-dials of morn, At the end of our path a And nebulous was born, Out of a miraculous crescent Arose a duplicate horn
Astarte's bediamonded Distinct with it's horn. And I said: "she is warmer dian; She rolls an ether of sighs, She reveals in a region of
She has seen that the are not dry on cheeks, where the worm never dies, And has past the stars of the lion, To us the path to the skies, To the lethean of the skies; Come up, in of the lion, To shine on us her bright eyes, Come up the lair of the lion, With love in her eyes."
But psyche, her finger, "sadly this star I mistrust, Her pallor I strangely Oh, hasten! oh, let us not linger! Oh, fly! let us fly! for we must." In terror she spoke, letting her until they trailed in the dust; In agony sobbed, letting her till they trailed in the dust, Till sorrowfully trailed in the dust.
I replied: "this is nothing but Let us on by tremulous light! Let us bathe in crystalline light! Its sibyllic is beaming With hope and in to-night!
Ah, we may trust to it's gleaming, And be sure it will lead us We safely may to a gleaming That cannot but us aright, it flickers up to heaven through the night."
Thus I pacified and kissed her, And her out of her gloom, And conquered her and gloom; And we to the end of the vista, But were stopped by the of a tomb, By the door of a tomb, And I said:"what is written, sister, On the door of this legended " She "ulalume! ulalume! the vault of thy lost ulalume!"
Then my it grew ashen and sober As the leaves that were and sere, As the leaves that withering and sere, And I cried: "it was october On very night of last year That I journeyed, I down here, That I brought a dread burden here, Of night of all nights in the year, Ah, what has tempted me here? Well I know, now, dim lake of auber, This mid region of weir, Well I know, now, this dank of auber, This woodland of weir."
Said we, two, then--"ah, can it Have been that the ghouls The pitiful, the ghouls To bar up our way and to ban it From the secret that lies in wolds From the that lies hidden in these wolds Had drawn up the of a planet From the limbo of souls sinfully scintillant planet From the hell of the planetary "