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Poe, Edgar Allen - For Annie
Identifier
006615
Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
Edgar Allan Poe – from For Annie (1849)
And oh! of all tortures
That torture the worst
Has abated — the terrible
Torture of thirst
For the naphthaline river
Of Passion accurst:—
I have drunk of a water
That quenches all thirst:—
Of a water that flows,
With a lullaby sound,
From a spring but a very few
Feet under ground —
From a cavern not very far
Down under ground.