Annabel Lee

It was many and many a year ago In a kingdom by the sea That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me I was a child and she was a child In this kingdom by the sea But we loved with a love that was more than love I and my Annabel Lee With a love that the winged seraphs of Heaven Coveted her and me And this was the reason that long ago In this kingdom by the sea A wind blew out of a cloud chilling My beautiful Annabel Lee So that her high-born kinsmen came And bore her away from me To shut her up in a sepulcher In this kingdom by the sea The angels not half so happy in heaven Went envying her and me Yes, that was the reason as all men know In this kingdom by the sea That the wind came out of the cloud by night Chilling and killing my beautiful Annabel Lee But our love it was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we Of many who were wiser than we And neither the angels in heaven above Nor the demons down under the sea Can ever dissever my soul From the soul of the beautiful Annabel Lee For the moon never beams without bringing me Dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee And so all the night-tide I lie down by the side of my darling My darling, my life and my bride In the sepulcher there by the sea, in her tomb By the sounding sea --- Annabel Lee - Jim Reeves