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And now I present, the first and last paragraphs of Edgar Allan Poe's, "The Raven":
Quote:
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 tapping,
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.'
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Yada, yada, yada...
Quote:
And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And (her) eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws (her) 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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ADG