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“You,” said Annabel Lee, “with your half-conscious soul, when you sit where the gray waves wash the sea-wall at high-tide, when you sit listening with your head bent and your hands dead cold, you think you realize your life—you think you know its hardness—you think you have [42]measured the cruelty they will give you; but you do not know. You know but half—you weep for the other half, though it be horror.