This I whisper’d, and an echo murmur’d back the word “Annore!”

Merely this, and nothing more.

VII.

Back into my chamber hasting, anguish deeper still now tasting,

Soon again I heard a rapping—something louder than before.

Surely, thought I, that is something at my window-lattice;

Let me see, then, what there at is, and this mystery explore;—

Oh! my heart, be still a moment, till this mystery I explore;—

Is’t the wind, and nothing more?

VIII.