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				Title:     Imitation 
			    Author: Edgar Allan Poe [More Titles by Poe ]		                
			     A dark unfathom'd tideOf interminable pride -
 A mystery, and a dream,
 Should my early life seem;
 I say that dream was fraught
 With a wild, and waking thought
 Of beings that have been,
 Which my spirit hath not seen,
 Had I let them pass me by,
 With a dreaming eye!
 Let none of earth inherit
 That vision on my spirit;
 Those thoughts I would control
 As a spell upon his soul:
 For that bright hope at last
 And that light time have past,
 And my worldly rest hath gone
 With a sigh as it pass'd on
 I care not tho' it perish
 With a thought I then did cherish.
 1827.
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