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The leading lights of the age |
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All wondered amongst themselves what I would do next |
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After all that I'd found in my travels around the world |
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Was there anything left? |
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"Gentlemen," I said, "I've studied the charts |
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And if what I'm thinking is right |
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There's another new world at the top of the world |
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For the first one new breaks through the ice" |
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And I looked round the room |
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In that way I once had |
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And I saw that they wanted belief |
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So, I said, "All I got are my guts and my God" |
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Then I paused, "And the Annabelle Lee" |
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Oh, the Annabelle Lee, I saw their eyes shine |
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The most beautiful ship in the sea |
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My Nina, my Pinta, my Santa Maria |
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My beautiful Annabelle Lee |
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That spring I set sail |
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As the crowd waved from shore |
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And on board the crew waved their hands |
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But I never had family, just the Annabelle Lee |
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So, I'd never had cause to look back |
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I just set the course north and I studied the charts |
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And towards dawn, I drifted toward sleep |
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And I dreamed of the fine, deep harbor I'd find |
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Past the ice for my Annabelle Lee |
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After that it got colder |
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And the world got quiet |
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It was never quite day or quite night |
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And the sea turned the color of sky |
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Turned the color of sea |
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Turned the color of ice |
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'Till at last all around us was fastness |
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One vast, glassy desert of arsenic white |
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And the waves that once lifted us |
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shifted instead into drifts against Annabelle's sides |
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And the crew gathered closer |
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At first for the warmth |
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But each day would bring a new set |
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Of the tracks in the snow leading over the edge |
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Of the world 'till I was the only one left |
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And then it gets cloudy |
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But itseems like I laid there |
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For days and maybe for months |
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But Annabelle held me, just the two of us happily |
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think back on all we had done |
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We talked of the other new worlds we'd discover |
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As she gave up her body to me |
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And as I chopped up her mainsail for timber |
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I told her of all that we still had to see |
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And as the frost turned her moorings to ninetail |
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And the wind lashed her sides in the cold |
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I burned her to keep me alive every night |
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In the loving embrace of her hold |
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and I won't call it rescue |
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to brought me back hereto The old world to drink and decline |
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And pretend that the search for another new world |
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Was well worth the burning of mine |
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But sometimes at night |
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In my dreams comes the singing |
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Of some unknown tropical bird |
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And I smile in my sleep, thinking Annabelle Lee |
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Has finally made it to another new world |
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Yeah, sometimes at night |
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In my dreams comes the singing |
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Of some unknown tropical bird |
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And I smile in my sleep, thinking Annabelle Lee |
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Has finally made it to another new world |
