3. ULALUME
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his poem was first published in Colton's 'American Review' for December1847, as "To----Ulalume: a Ballad." Being reprinted immediately inthe 'Home Journal', it was copied into various publications with thename of the editor, N. P. Willis, appended, and was ascribed to him.When first published, it contained the following additional stanza whichPoe subsequently, at the suggestion of Mrs. Whitman wisely suppressed: Said we then--the two, then--"Ah, can itHave been that the woodlandish ghouls--The pitiful, the merciful ghouls--To bar up our path and to ban itFrom the secret that lies in these wolds--Had drawn up the spectre of a planetFrom the limbo of lunary souls--This sinfully scintillant planetFrom the Hell of the planetary souls?" * * * * *
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