Annabelle Lee - 19C

James Pitt-Payne, London and Ian Cousins, Opera Australia - 01 Feb 2002

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 Annabelle 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 lov'd with a love
that was more than love,
I and my Annabelle 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 Annabelle Lee,
So that her high born kinsmen came,
and bore her away from me
To shut her up in a sepulchre,
In this kingdom by the sea.
My beautiful Annabelle Lee.
My beautiful Annabelle Lee
But the moon never beams,
without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabelle Lee.
And the stars never rise
but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabelle Lee.
And so all the nighttide
I lie down by the side
Of my darling, my darling,
my life and my bride,
In her sepulchre there by the sea
In her tomb by the sounding sea.
My beautiful Annabelle Lee.
My beautiful Annabelle Lee.

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Annabelle Lee 19C Henry Leslie
Music by Henry Leslie
Lyric by Edgar Allan Poe
copyright by J. B. Cramer and Co. Ltd., London
sequence by Dr. Pitt-Payne in London UK
and Ian Cousins, Opera Australia
completed Friday 01 Feb 2002 at 14.03
in association with Doug Grierson
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