When it's over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms. When it's over, I don't want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don't want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument. I don't want to end up simply having visited this world.

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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—

​​​ (Who doesn't love a good Edgar excerpt?)