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  • [Rowena:]
  • A wild being from birth
  • My spirit spurns control
  • Wondering the wide earth searching for my soul
  • While all the world is chiding
  • In visions of the dark night
  • I have had a waking dream
  • A holy dream
  • A holy dream
  • A waking dream of life and light
  • That cheered me as a lovely beam
  • A lonely spirit guiding
  • With a ray turned back upon the past
  • While I aghast
  • Sit motionless through the misty night
  • Dimly peering at what once shone bright
  • Peeking wariy at what shone afar
  • What could there be more purely bright
  • In Truth's day-star?
  • [Poe:]
  • In the consideration of the faculties
  • And impulses of the human soul
  • In consideration of our arrogance
  • Our radical, primitive, irreducible arrogance of reason
  • We have all overlooked the propensity
  • We saw no need for it
  • The paradoxical something which we may call perverseness
  • A mobile without motive
  • Through its promptings, we act without comprehensible object
  • Induction would have brought phrenology to admit this
  • We act for the reason we should not
  • For certain minds this is absolutely irresistible
  • The conviction of the wrong or impolicy of an action
  • Is often the unconquerable force
  • It is a primitive impulse
  • Elementary
  • The overwhelming tendency to do
  • Wrong for the wrong's sake
  • This impels us to its persecutions
  • Oh holy dream
  • We persist in acts
  • Because we feel that we should not persist in them
  • This is the combativeness of phrenology
  • [Rowena:]
  • We have a task before us which must be speedily performed
  • We know it will be ruinous to delay
  • Trumpet-tongued, the important crisis of our life calls
  • We glow
  • [Poe:]
  • We are consumed with eagerness to commence work
  • Yet a shadow flits across the brain
  • The impulse increases to a wish
  • The wish to a desire
  • The desire to uncontrollable longing
  • And the longing in defiance of all consequences is indulged
  • We put off all until tomorrow
  • [Rowena:]
  • We tremble with the violence of the conflict within us
  • The definite with the indefinite
  • The substance with the shadow
  • There is no answer except that we feel perverse
  • The shadow prevails
  • Our energy returns
  • We will commit now
  • We will labor now
  • Oh holiest of dreams
  • But it is too late
  • We stand upon the brink of the precipice
  • [Poe:]
  • We grow sick and dizzy
  • We go to shrink from danger but instead we approach it
  • We are intoxicated by the mere idea
  • Of a fall from such a great height
  • This fall, this rushing annihilation
  • For the very reason
  • It contains the most loathsome and ghastly images
  • Of death and suffering
  • For this reason do we now most impetuously desire it
  • There is no passion in nature
  • So demonic as the passion of him who
  • Shuddering upon the edge, meditates a plunge
  • We will these actions merely
  • Because we feel that we should not
  • Having realized this, I swoon
  • It is the spirit of the perverse
  • The idea of a poison candle struck my fancy
  • And I procured one for my victim
  • I will not vex you with impertinent details
  • But suffice it to say the verdict was
  • "Death by the visitation of God"
  • [Rowena:]
  • All went well for me
  • [Poe:]
  • All went well for me
  • [Rowena:]
  • His estate inherited
  • I reveled in absolute security
  • I would never be found out
  • I was safe
  • I was safe
  • If I did not prove fool enough to make open confession
  • [Poe:]
  • If I did not prove fool enough to make public confession
  • No sooner had I uttered those words
  • Than I felt an icy chill creep into my heart
  • I made a strong effort
  • To shake off this nightmare of the soul
  • I laughed
  • I whistled
  • I walked and then walked faster
  • I thought I saw a formless shape approaching me from behind
  • And then I ran
  • I pushed and shoved blindly
  • I thought I left a hand upon my throat
  • No mortal hand
  • I screamed
  • And then clearly, clearly
  • I enunciated pregnant sentences
  • That consigned me to the hangman and the hell
  • The fullest judicial conviction
  • Today I wear chains but tomorrow I shall be fetterless
  • But where?
  • Oh holy dream
  • Oh beam of light
  • I fall prostrate with excitement this holy night

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