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)