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    The City in The Sea

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    The poem describes a strange underwater city located in the dim west, far below the sea. The decaying towers and buildings resemble nothing from the land above. No light comes from the heavens, only an eerie glow from the sea itself. The melancholy waters lie motionlessly around the sunken ruins. Suddenly, there is a faint stirring in the air as the towers seem to sink further, thrusting aside the dull tide. The waves take on a redder hue and the hours breathe faintly and lowly, as the sunken city prepares to fully settle beneath the waves for eternity.

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    The poem describes a strange underwater city located in the dim west, far below the sea. The decaying towers and buildings resemble nothing from the land above. No light comes from the heavens, only an eerie glow from the sea itself. The melancholy waters lie motionlessly around the sunken ruins. Suddenly, there is a faint stirring in the air as the towers seem to sink further, thrusting aside the dull tide. The waves take on a redder hue and the hours breathe faintly and lowly, as the sunken city prepares to fully settle beneath the waves for eternity.

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    The poem describes a strange underwater city located in the dim west, far below the sea. The decaying towers and buildings resemble nothing from the land above. No light comes from the heavens, only an eerie glow from the sea itself. The melancholy waters lie motionlessly around the sunken ruins. Suddenly, there is a faint stirring in the air as the towers seem to sink further, thrusting aside the dull tide. The waves take on a redder hue and the hours breathe faintly and lowly, as the sunken city prepares to fully settle beneath the waves for eternity.

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    The poem describes a strange underwater city located in the dim west, far below the sea. The decaying towers and buildings resemble nothing from the land above. No light comes from the heavens, only an eerie glow from the sea itself. The melancholy waters lie motionlessly around the sunken ruins. Suddenly, there is a faint stirring in the air as the towers seem to sink further, thrusting aside the dull tide. The waves take on a redder hue and the hours breathe faintly and lowly, as the sunken city prepares to fully settle beneath the waves for eternity.

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    The City in the Sea

    by Edgar Allan Poe (published 1831) Lo! Death has reared himself a throne In a strange city lying alone Far down within the dim West, Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best Have gone to their eternal rest. There shrines and palaces and towers Time!eaten towers that tremble not!" #esemble nothing that is o$rs. %ro$nd, by lifting winds forgot, #esignedly beneath the s&y The melancholy waters lie. 'o rays from the holy heaven come down (n the long night!time of that town) *$t light from o$t the l$rid sea +treams $p the t$rrets silently! ,leams $p the pinnacles far and free! -p domes! $p spires! $p &ingly halls! -p fanes! $p *abylon!li&e walls! -p shadowy long!forgotten bowers (f sc$lpt$red ivy and stone flowers! -p many and many a marvello$s shrine Whose wreathed frie.es intertwine The viol, the violet, and the vine. #esignedly beneath the s&y The melancholy waters lie. +o blend the t$rrets and shadows there That all seem pend$lo$s in air, While from a pro$d tower in the town Death loo&s gigantically down. There open fanes and gaping graves /awn level with the l$mino$s waves) *$t not the riches there that lie In each idol0s diamond eye! 'ot the gaily!1ewelled dead Tempt the waters from their bed) For no ripples c$rl, alas! %long that wilderness of glass! 'o swellings tell that winds may be -pon some far!off happier sea! 'o heavings hint that winds have been (n seas less hideo$sly serene.

    *$t lo, a stir is in the air! The wave! there is a movement there! %s if the towers had thr$st aside, In slightly sin&ing, the d$ll tide! %s if their tops had feebly given % void within the filmy Heaven. The waves have now a redder glow! The ho$rs are breathing faint and low! %nd when, amid no earthly moans, Down, down that town shall settle hence, Hell, rising from a tho$sand thrones, +hall do it reverence.

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