To+One+in+Paradise

=To One in Paradise = By  EDGAR ALLAN POE

Thou wast that all to me, love,  For which my soul did pine— A green isle in the sea, love, A fountain and a shrine, All wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers, And all the flowers were mine. Ah, dream too bright to last! Ah, starry Hope! that didst arise But to be overcast! A voice from out the Future cries, “On! on!”—but o’er the Past (Dim gulf!) my spirit hovering lies Mute, motionless, aghast! <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">For, alas! alas! with me <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">The light of Life is o’er! <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">No more—no more—no more— <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">(Such language holds the solemn sea <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">To the sands upon the shore) <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">Shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">Or the stricken eagle soar! <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">And all my days are trances, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">And all my nightly dreams <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">Are where thy grey eye glances, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;"> And where thy footstep gleams— <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">In what ethereal dances, <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 120%; padding-left: 1em; text-indent: -1em;">By what eternal streams.