The Night Mail and Other Poems

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Then the bird said, "Nevermore."

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Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,

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"Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store,

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Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster

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Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore -

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Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore

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Of 'Never - nevermore'."

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Ladies & Gentlemen

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

Act ll

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But the Raven still beguiling all my fancy into smiling,

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Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door;

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Then upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking

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Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore -

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What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore

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Meant in croaking "Nevermore."