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“Eldorado

Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.

But he grew old�
This knight so bold�
And o’er his heart a shadow�
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado.

And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow�
‘Shadow,� said he,
‘Where can it be�
This land of Eldorado?�

‘Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,�
The shade replied,�
‘If you seek for Eldorado!”
― Edgar Allen Poe, The Complete Stories and Poems

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