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 Allan Poe,
1849
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