Distorted Atavistic Madness

"Wretches! ye loved her for her wealth
and hated her for her pride,
And when she fell in feeble health,
ye blessed her that she died!
How shall the ritual, then, be read?
The requiem how be sung?
By you - by yours, the evil eye,
by yours - the slanderous tongue
That did to death the innocence that died, and died so young?"
- Edgar Allen Poe

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