"To Isaac Lea" is a short poem by Edgar Allan Poe in which the speaker reflects on a fateful decision — whether born of choice or chance — to commit entirely to a singular cause. With his worldly goods, wit, soul, and body pledged in full, the speaker frames devotion itself as a kind of fate. The poem is spare and intense, capturing in just four lines the weight of an all-consuming dedication that cannot easily be undone.

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