The Tragic Period

Here's a tale in history
 About a period of tragedy
 A man who thought of horrid things
 But really sought what happiness brings
 Terror instilled within the souls
 Of men and women, young and old
 Come and listen to me, my friend
 
 He'll make your morale descend
 One Boston day, it's sad to say
 A newborn child was granted miserable life
 Abandoned by his father and
 Left alone by death of father's wife
 Foster child
 Tobacco exporter gave him a chance
 History defiled
 Twisted by literature, dark and opium enhanced
 Irregularity
 So far ahead of his time
 A spark of a breed
 Regarding all of his literature creed
 
 Infamy of tales and poetry
 Connecting his themes to his wildest dreams
 The maelstrom grew but no one knew
 
 He descended far beyond its spinning walls
 Into the pit, the black abyss
 His house was collapsing as he searched for El Dorado
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 Perched upon Pallas was life, hard and callous
 The shadows of burden lifted nevermore
 The vulture eye of death concealed
 By wooden planks below the floor
 The quest for solace evolved into sorrow
 Lingering obsessions
 Intoxication, stimulation, creation
 Hindering addictions
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 Apparently the message in a bottle was lost
 For I could see no conclusion
 But all of us remaining in the shrouded past
 Must remember to further ourselves by obtrusion
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 Inebriated grin leads the mighty pen
 Across the paper as his fears come alive
 Satiric whim ignites the brim
 Of insanity as Pluto arrives
 Swaying cognac barriers
 And the beating of his hideous heart
 Increasing ever so constantly
 Conjuring the ne'er forgotten lore
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 'Tis only this and nothing more
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 Nevermore
 Lightning bolts
 Tearing through his house and soul
 Mental gibes
 Darkness hailed in what he's told
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 Eternally infatuated with despair
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 Fortunado leads the way to fermented pleasures
 But as the cup of drink is met
 The hour tolls and the Red Death guest reveals
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 In a kingdom by the sea
 Is where they left beloved thee
 The time has come to join, my dear
 In your kingdom by the sea
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 Hear the toll of the iron bells!