My Selections — “The Fall of the House of Usher”

A gothic short story by Edgar Allan Poe

Walter Bowne

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Apr 10, 2021

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There are seven pillars of gothic mold,
In Chillon’s dungeons deep and old,
There are seven columns, massy, and grey,
Dim with a dull imprisoned ray,
A sunbeam which hath lost its way,
And through the crevice and the cleft
Of the thick wall is fallen and left;
Creeping o’er the floor so damp,
Like a marsh’s…