The Night Mail and Other Poems

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Ok......deep breath....

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

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Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,

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While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

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As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

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"'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door -

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Only this, and nothing more."

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Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,

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And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

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Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow

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From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore -

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For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore -

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Nameless here for evermore.

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And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain

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Thrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;