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<h1>the Raven</h1> | |
<div class="raven"> | |
<p> | |
<span class="a">Once upon</span><span class="b"> a midnight dreary,</span><span class="c">while I pondered weak</span><span class="d"> and weary, | |
Over many a</span><span class="e"> quaint and curious volume of</span><span class="f"> forgotten lore, | |
While I nodded, nearly</span><span class="g"> napping, suddenly there came a tapping, | |
As of</span><span class="h"> some one gently rapping, rapping at</span><span class="i"> my</span><span class="j"> chamber door. | |
`'Tis some visitor,' I</span><span class="k"> muttered, `tapping at my chamber door -</span> | |
<span class="l">Only this, and nothing more.' | |
Ah, distinctly I </span><span class="m">remember it was in the bleak December, | |
And</span><span class="n"> each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon</span><span class="o"> the floor. | |
Eagerly I wished the morrow; — vainly I</span><span class="p"> had sought to borrow | |
From my books surcease of</span><span class="q"> sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore - | |
For the rare</span><span class="r"> and radiant maiden whom the angels named</span><span class="s"> Lenore - | |
Nameless here for evermore. | |
And the</span><span class="t"> silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain</span><span class="u"> | |
Thrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never</span><span class="v"> felt before; | |
So that now, to still the beating of my</span><span class="w"> heart, I stood repeating | |
`'Tis some visitor entreating</span><span class="x"> entrance at my chamber door — | |
Some late</span><span class="y"> visitor entreating entrance at my chamber</span><span class="z"> door; — | |
This it is, and nothing more,' | |
Presently</span><span class="zz"> my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no </span><span class="aa">longer, | |
`Sir,' said I, `or Madam, truly your</span><span class="ab"> forgiveness I implore; | |
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently</span><span class="ac"> you came rapping, | |
And so faintly </span><span class="ad">you</span><span class="ae"> came tapping, tapping at my</span><span class="af"> chamber door, | |
That I scarce</span><span class="ag"> was sure I heard you' — here</span><span class="ah"> I opened wide the door; —</span><span class="ai"> | |
Darkness there, and nothing</span><span class="aj"> more. | |
Deep into that darkness</span><span class="ak"> peering, long I stood there</span><span class="al"> wondering, fearing, | |
Doubting,</span><span class="am"> dreaming dreams no mortal</span><span class="an"> ever dared to dream before;</span><span class="ao"> | |
But the silence was unbroken</span><span class="ap"> and</span><span class="aq"> the darkness</span><span class="ar"> gave no</span><span class="as"> token,</span><span class="at"> | |
And…</span> | |
</p> | |
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<p class="moon"> | |
the only word there spoken was the whispered word, `Lenore!' | |
This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, `Lenore!' | |
Merely this and nothing more. | |
</p> | |
<p> | |
Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning, | |
Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before. | |
`Surely,' said I, `surely that is something at my window lattice; | |
Let me see then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore - | |
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore; - | |
'Tis the wind and nothing more!' | |
</p><p> | |
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, | |
In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore. | |
Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he; | |
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door - | |
Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door - | |
Perched, and sat, and nothing more. | |
</p><p> | |
Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, | |
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, | |
`Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,' I said, `art sure no craven. | |
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore - | |
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!' | |
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.' | |
</p><p> | |
Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, | |
Though its answer little meaning - little relevancy bore; | |
For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being | |
Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door - | |
Bird or beast above the sculptured bust above his chamber door, | |
With such name as `Nevermore.' | |
</p><p> | |
But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only, | |
That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour. | |
Nothing further then he uttered - not a feather then he fluttered - | |
Till I scarcely more than muttered `Other friends have flown before - | |
On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.' | |
Then the bird said, `Nevermore.' | |
</p><p> | |
Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken, | |
`Doubtless,' said I, `what it utters is its only stock and store, | |
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful disaster | |
Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore - | |
Till the dirges of his hope that melancholy burden bore | |
Of "Never-nevermore."' | |
</p><p> | |
But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, | |
Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door; | |
Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking | |
Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore - | |
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore | |
Meant in croaking `Nevermore.' | |
</p><p> | |
This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing | |
To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core; | |
This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining | |
On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er, | |
But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er, | |
She shall press, ah, nevermore! | |
</p><p> | |
Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer | |
Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor. | |
`Wretch,' I cried, `thy God hath lent thee - by these angels he has sent thee | |
Respite - respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore! | |
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!' | |
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.' | |
</p> | |
`Prophet!' said I, `thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! - | |
Whether tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore, | |
Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted - | |
On this home by horror haunted - tell me truly, I implore - | |
Is there - is there balm in Gilead? - tell me - tell me, I implore!' | |
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.' | |
</p><p> | |
`Prophet!' said I, `thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! | |
By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore - | |
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, | |
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels named Lenore - | |
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels named Lenore?' | |
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.' | |
</p><p> | |
`Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!' I shrieked upstarting - | |
`Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore! | |
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken! | |
Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my door! | |
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!' | |
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.' | |
</p><p> | |
And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting | |
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; | |
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming, | |
And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; | |
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor | |
Shall be lifted - nevermore! | |
</p> | |
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