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« on: October 29, 2012, 11:44:49 am Central Daylight Time »

Just to get everyone ready for Halloween.

The Raven
Edgar Allen Poe

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a taaping, as of some one gently rapping--Rapping at my chamber door.  "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door--Only this and nothing more."

Ah, distinctly I remember, it was the bleak December, and each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.  Eagerly I wished the morrow;--vainly I had sought to borrow from my books surcease of sorrow--Sorrow for the lost Lenore--For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore--Nameless here for evermore.

And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain thrilled me--Filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; so that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating "'Tis some visitor entreating enterance at my chamber door;--This it is and nothing more."

Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer, "Sir" said I, "or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore; but the the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping, and so faintly you came tapping--tapping at my chamber door, that I scarce was sure I heard you"--Here I opened wide the door:--Darkness there and nothing more.

Deep into that darnkess peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before; but the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token, and the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore!"  This I whispered, and an echo muttered back the word, "Lenore!"  Merely this and nothing more.

Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning, soon 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."

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 obseisance made he: not an instant stopped or stayed he; but with mien of lord or lady, perched above my door--Perched upon a bust of Pallus just above my chamber door--Perched and sat, and nothing more.

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 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."

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 being ever yet blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door--Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door, with such a name as "Nevermore."

But the Raven, sitting lonely on that placid bust, spoke only that one word, as if his soul in that one word 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."

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 the melancholy burden bore of 'Never--Nevermore.'"

But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling, straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of the bird and bust and door; then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook to linking fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore--What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and onimous bird of yore meant in croaking "Nevermore."

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 gloating o'er, but whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er, she shall press, ah, nevermore!

Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkledon the tufted floor.  "Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee--By these angel he hath sent thee respite--Respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!  Quaff, oh quaff this kind of nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!"  Quoth the Raven, Nevermore."

"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 emplore--Is there--Is there balm in Gilead?--Tell me--Tell me, I implore!"  Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

"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 name Lenore."  Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

"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."

And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting on the placid bust of Pallus 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!


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« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2012, 12:01:33 pm Central Daylight Time »

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« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2012, 04:41:48 pm Central Daylight Time »

I was tempted to use a pic of Raven Symone at the end, but I thought that would be too scary for Pie.
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« Reply #3 on: January 20, 2013, 05:39:09 pm Central Standard Time »

Oh cool. Dang didn't realize I have been gone since before Halloween.
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You where? Where?
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« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2013, 03:58:54 pm Central Standard Time »

I like ravens.

i like the ravens too the are my 3rd favorite team XD
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« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2013, 08:18:04 pm Central Standard Time »

I was just doin school stuff Fever. I didn't get on for awhile.
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