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From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were -- I have not seen
As others saw -- I could not bring
My passions from a common spring --
From the same source I have not
taken
My sorrow -- I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone --
And all I lov'd -- I lov'd alone --
Then -- in my childhood -- in the
dawn
Of a most stormy life -- was drawn
From ev'ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still --
From the torrent, or the fountain --
From the red cliff of the mountain --
From the sun that 'round me roll'd
In its autumn tint of gold --
From the lightning in the sky
As it pass'd me flying by --
From the thunder, and the storm --
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view --
[Poe wrote this poem in the autograph
album of Lucy Holmes, later Lucy
Holmes Balderston. The poem was
never printed during Poe's lifetime. It
was first published by E. L. Didier in
Scribner's Monthly for September of
1875, in the form of a facsimile. The
facsimile, however, included the
addition of a title and date not on the
original manuscript. That title was
"Alone," which has remained. Doubts
about its authenticity, in part inspired
by this manipulation, have since been
calmed. The poem is now seen as one
of Poe's most revealing works.]
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