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I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "death," i said, "any death but that of the pit!" fool! might i have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?
-Edgar Allan Poe
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I Could Have Clasped The Red Walls

Edgar Allan Poe
I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. "death," i said, "any death but that of the pit!" fool! might i have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?
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