From ‘The Raven’ Edgar Allen Poe
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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 someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. Tis some visitor, I muttered, tapping at my chamber door. Only this and nothing more are distinctly. I remember it was in the bleak December and accepted dying Ember wrought its ghost upon the full. Eagerly, I wished the morrow vainly. I had sought to borrow from my books surcease of sorrow, sorrow for the Lost Lenore or the rare and radiant Maiden whom the angels name Lenore. Nameless here forevermore and the silken said 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 entrance at my chamber door, some light visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door. This it is and nothing more presently, my soldiers stronger, hesitating then no longer, sir said I or madam truly your forgiveness, I implore. But the fact is, I was napping. And so Jim, 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.