This video is copied from a video I saw on the Net featuring Poe's poem but without any reading of the words, just music and a picture. I have added my reading of the poem and put some movement into the picture. The amazing photo is 'Elysium' by Wyrd and can be seen on flickr.com and the entrancing music is by Der blaue Reiter from their album Le Paradise Funebre. The video is from Josh's blog - see ulr below - and my thanks to him for allowing me to use his wonderful idea.

To One in Paradise

You were all that to me love
for which my soul did pine:
a green isle in the sea love
a fountain and a shrine
all wreathed with fairy fruits and flowers
and all the flowers were mine.

Ah dream too bright to last!
Ah starry hope that did arise
but to be overcast!
A voice from out the future cries
"On! On!" - but o'er the past
(dim gulf!) my spirit hovering lies
mute, motionless, aghast.

For alas alas with me
the light of life is o'er.
No more no more no more
(such language holds the solemn sea
to the sands upon the shore)
shall bloom the thunder-blasted tree
or the stricken eagle soar.

And all my days are trances
and all my nightly dreams
are where thy grey eye glances
and where thy footstep gleams -
in what ethereal dances
by what eternal streams.

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