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Edgar Allan Poe, the most interesting and original figure in American letters. And, to signify that peculiar musical quality of Poe's genius which inthralls every reader, Mr. Lowell suggested this additional verse, from the "Haunted Palace":
And all with pearl and ruby glowing / Was the fair palace door, / Through which came flowing, flowing, flowing, / And sparkling ever more, / A troop of Echoes, whose sweet duty / Was but to sing, / In voices of surpassing beauty, / The wit and wisdom of their king.