It was many and many a year ago In a kingdom by the sea That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee And this maiden she lived with no other thought Than to love and be loved by me Oh, we were so young, younger than the breeze Children of the wide and wild sea But we loved with a love that was more than love I and Annabel Lee With a love that each creature in Heaven or Hell Went envyin' my pretty girl and me Oh please have mercy, wi th the human fate We're much too young, for the deathman's blade But a chill wind blew and took her right away And through my tears I had to see That she was gone