January 19, 2004
Aside from it being Martin
Aside from it being Martin Luther King Jr. Day (now don't tell me MLK doesn't look like "MILK,") today is also a very special day for another person.
Happy Birthday to an original Baltimoron, Edgar Allen Poe. He would be 195 years old today.
"Alone"
From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were - I have not seen
As others saw - I could not bring
My passions from a common spring -
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow - I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone -
And all I lov'd - I lov'd alone -
Then - in my childhood - in the dawn
Of a most stormy life - was drawn
From ev'ry depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still -
From the torrent, or the fountain -
From the red cliff of the mountain -
From the sun that 'round me roll'd
In its autumn tint of gold -
From the lightning in the sky
As it pass'd me flying by -
From the thunder, and the storm -
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view -
E. A. Poe
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