Eldorado - Edgar Allan Poe Poem - Original music - Guitar & Vocal

Eldorado is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe. I put music to it. I sing and play it fingerpicking style on a classical guitar. I guess this is sort of a collab with Edgar and me.

Eldorado
(Poem by Edgar Allan Poe)
(Music by Dan D. Dirges)

Gaily bedight,
A gallant knight,
In sunshine and in shadow,
Had journeyed long,
Singing a song,
In search of Eldorado.

But he grew old-
This knight so bold-
And o'er his heart a shadow
Fell as he found
No spot of ground
That looked like Eldorado.

And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow-
"Shadow," said he,
"Where can it be-
This land of Eldorado?"

"Over the Mountains
Of the Moon,
Down the Valley of the Shadow,
Ride, boldly ride,"
The shade replied-
"If you seek for Eldorado!"

And, as his strength
Failed him at length,
He met a pilgrim shadow-
"Shadow," said he,
"Where can it be-
This land of Eldorado?"