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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."

"Prophet!" cried 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,

Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore."

Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

"Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!" I shrieked, upstarting.

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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."

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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 lamplight 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!

LENORE.

АH, broken is the golden bowl!-the spirit flown forever!—

Let the bell toll!- -a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river;

And, Guy De Vere, hast thou no tear ?--weep now, or never more!

See, on yon drear and rigid bier low lies thy love, Lenore !

Come, let the burial rite be read,-the funeral song be sung!

An anthem for the queenliest dead that ever died

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A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died

so young.

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