How tender, how lovely, how bright is the golden ripple against the cold, cold blue! It is come and gone in a minute. We do not know its coming or its going. But while we see it our hearts beat high and fast. “It may be,” I say when it is gone, “that this golden ripple will show us some way to get beyond the wall where things are divine.” “It may be,” says my friend Annabel Lee, “that the golden ripple will show us something divine among these few things on this side of the wall.” * * * * * _My friend, Annabel Lee--with your strong, brave little heart and your two strong little hands, you were with me in my weary, bitter day. You were brave enough for two. It is to you from me that a message will go from out of silences and over frozen hills in the years that are coming._ THE END PRINTED BY R. R. DONNELLEY AND SONS COMPANY, AT THE LAKESIDE PRESS, CHICAGO, ILL. [Transcriber’s Notes: Errors in punctuation were repaired. Except for the following changes, spelling has been preserved as printed in the original. Page 32, “countless” changed from “couutless” (countless grass-blades). Page 43, “written” changed from “writtten” (who has written). Page 95, “Annabel” changed from “Annable” (“To fall in love!”--said my friend Annabel). Page 128, “look” changed from “took” (Annabel Lee to look at). Page 139, “Le Page” changed from “LePage” (and Le Page covered). Page 158, “beautiful” on the second and fourth lines of the verse “For the moon never beams ...” changed from “beatiful” and “beautiul”, respectively. Page 212, “it’s” changed from “its” (it’s all right). On page 224, a paragraph break was inserted before “And which would you”.] End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of My Friend Annabel Lee, by Mary MacLane