Pg. 946
" 'Wretches! ye loved her for her wealth and hater her for her pride, and when she fell in feeble health, ye blessed her- that she died! How shall the ritual, then, be read? - the requiem how be sung By you- by yours, the evil eye,- by yours, the slanderous tongue That did to death the innocence that died, and died so young?"
- As I read this (and annotated), what came in to my mind was that he was absolutely outraged that these people were at Lenore's funeral. He's basically telling them off by saying how can they be there when they truly never cared for her and they shouldn't taint her sacred funeral with their corrupted presence.
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