Jan. 12, 2024
A Reading From My Snowed in Cabin of The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
I just threw this together as I was feeling the spooky vibes all alone in my cabin during a blizzard. Enjoy :-)
I just threw this together as I was feeling the spooky vibes all alone in my cabin during a blizzard. Enjoy :-)
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Hey, guys. I am out
in a creepy cabin in the mid no
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where during a massive, massive blizzard
that's happening way up, way up in
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northern Michigan, and I felt like
reading something scary and sharing it with you
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guys. So I don't usually do
it like this, but here we go.
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This is The Raven by Edgar Allan
Poe, true classic. Hmm.
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while
I pondered, weak and weary, over
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many a quaint and curious volume of
forgotten lore. While I nodded, nearly
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napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as of someone gently rapping, rapping
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at my chamber door.'tis some
visitor, I muttered, tapping at my
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chamber door. Only this and nothing
more. Ah, Distinctly I remember.
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It was in the bleak December,
and each separate dying ember wrought its ghost
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upon the floor. Eagerly I wished
the morrow. Vainly I had sought to
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borrow from my books Cecease of sorrow, Sorrow for the lost Lenore, for
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the rare and radiant maiden whom the
angels named Lenore, nameless here for evermore,
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and the silken sad uncertain rustling of
each purple curtain thrilled me, filled
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me with fantastic terrors never felt before, So that now to still the beating
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of my heart, I stood,
repeating, tis some visitor entreating entrance at
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my chamber door, some late visitor
entreating entrance at my chamber door. That
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is it, and nothing more.
Presently my soul grew stronger, hesitating,
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Then no longer, sir, I
said, or madam, truly your forgiveness,
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I implore. But the fact is
I was napping, and so gently
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you came rapping, and so faintly
you came tapping tapping at my chamber door
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that I scarce was sure I heard
you here. I opened wide the door.
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Darkness there, and nothing more.
Deep into that darkness, peering long,
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I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams. No
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mortal ever dared dream before. But
the silence was unbroken, and the stillness
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gave no token. And the only
word there spoken was the whispered word leonor
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this I whispered, and an echo
back the word lenor merely this and nothing
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more back into the chamber, turning
all my soul within me burning. Soon
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again I heard a tapping somewhat louder
than before. Surely said I, surely
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that is something at my window lattice. Let me let me see then what
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thereat is, and this mystery explore. Let my heart be still a moment,
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And this mystery explore tis the wind, and nothing more open. Here
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I flung the shutter, when,
with many a flirt and flutter in their
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step to stately raven of the saintly
days of yore, not the least obbeisance
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made he not a minute stopped or
stayed. He but with mine of Lord
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or lady, perched above my chamber
door, perched upon a bust of polluce,
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just above my chamber door, perched
and sat, and nothing more then
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this ebony bird, beguiling my sad
fancy into smiling by the graven stern decorum
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of the counterance it wore. Though
thy chest be shorn and shaven, Thou,
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I said, art sure, no
craven, ghastly, grim and ancient
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raven wandering from the knightly shore.
Tell me that thy lordly name is on
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the night's Plutonian shore. Quoth the
raven never more much? I marveled this
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ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly
though it answer little mean it little relevancy
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bore, for we cannot help agreeing. But no living human being ever yet
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was blessed with seeing bird above his
chamber door, bird or beast upon the
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sculptured bust above his chamber door,
with such a name as nevermore. But
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the raven, sitting lonely on the
placid bust, spoke only that one word,
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as if his soul. In that
one word he did out pour nothing
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farther than he uttered, not a
feather. Then he fluttered till I scarcely
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more than uttered other friends have flown
before. On the morrow, he believe
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me as my hopes have flown before. Then the bird said, nevermore.
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Startled at the stillness broken by reply
so aptly spoken, doubtless, said I
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what it utters, It is only
stock and store caught from some unhappy master,
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whom unmerciful disaster followed fast, and
followed faster till his song one burden
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bore till the dirges of his hope, that melancholy burden bore of never nevermore.
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But the ravens still beguiling all my
fancy into smiling straight, I wheeled
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a cushioned seat in front of the
bird, and bust and door. Then
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upon the velvet sinking, I betook
myself to linking fancy under fancy, thinking
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what this ominous bird of your,
What this grim ungainly, ghastly god,
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an ominous bird of your meant in
croaking? Nevermore? This I sat engaged
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in guessing, but no syllable expressing
to the fowl, whose fiery eyes now
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burned into my bosom's core. This
and more I sat divining, with my
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head at ease, reclining on the
cushion's velvet lining that the lamplight gloated over.
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But whose velvet violet lining, with
the lamp light gloating over, she
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shall press ah nevermore? Then,
methought the air grew denser, perfumed from
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an unseen censor swung by saraphin,
whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor.
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Wretch, I cried, Thy God
hath lent thee by these angels. He
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hath sent thee respite, respite and
the penthe from thy memories of Lenore.
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Quaff Oh Quaffa is kind the penthe, And forget this lost lenor quote the
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raven nevermore prophet said, I thing
of evil Prophet, Still, if bird
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or devil, whether tempter sent,
or whether tempest does be here, ashore,
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desolate, yell all undaunted on this
desert land, enchanted on this home
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by horror, haunted. Tell me
truly, I implore, is there balm
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and j lead, Tell me,
tell me I implore. Quote the Raven
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nevermore. Prophet said, I thing
of evil Prophet, Still, if bird
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or devil, by that heaven that
bends above us, by that god,
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we both adore. Tell this soul
with sorrow laden. If within the distance,
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aiden it shall clasp a sainted maiden
whom the angels named Leonore, clasp
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a rare and radiant maiden whom the
angels named Lenore. Quote the raven nevermore.
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Be that word our sign of parting
bird, our fiend, I shrieked
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up, starting get thee back into
the tempest the Knight's plutonian shore. Leave
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no black plume as a token of
that lie thy soul hath spoken, Leave
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my loneliness unbroken. Quit the bust
above my door, Take thy beak from
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out my heart, and take thy
form from off my door, quoth the
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raven nevermore. And the raven,
never flitting still, is sitting still,
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is sitting on the pallid bust of
palace just above my chamber door, And
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his eyes have all the seeming of
the demons that is dreaming, and the
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lamplight o'er him, streaming throws his
shadow on the floor, and my soul
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from out that shadow that lies floating
on the floor shall be lifted nevermore. Lovey kais
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Hey, guys. I am out
in a creepy cabin in the mid no
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00:00:04.480 --> 00:00:11.080
where during a massive, massive blizzard
that's happening way up, way up in
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00:00:11.199 --> 00:00:17.879
northern Michigan, and I felt like
reading something scary and sharing it with you
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00:00:17.920 --> 00:00:22.879
guys. So I don't usually do
it like this, but here we go.
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00:00:23.440 --> 00:00:28.559
This is The Raven by Edgar Allan
Poe, true classic. Hmm.
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00:00:30.839 --> 00:00:36.280
Once upon a midnight dreary, while
I pondered, weak and weary, over
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00:00:36.359 --> 00:00:42.560
many a quaint and curious volume of
forgotten lore. While I nodded, nearly
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00:00:42.679 --> 00:00:52.439
napping, suddenly there came a tapping, as of someone gently rapping, rapping
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00:00:52.799 --> 00:00:58.640
at my chamber door.'tis some
visitor, I muttered, tapping at my
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00:00:58.799 --> 00:01:06.120
chamber door. Only this and nothing
more. Ah, Distinctly I remember.
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00:01:06.200 --> 00:01:11.719
It was in the bleak December,
and each separate dying ember wrought its ghost
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00:01:11.879 --> 00:01:17.560
upon the floor. Eagerly I wished
the morrow. Vainly I had sought to
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00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:25.519
borrow from my books Cecease of sorrow, Sorrow for the lost Lenore, for
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00:01:25.640 --> 00:01:34.159
the rare and radiant maiden whom the
angels named Lenore, nameless here for evermore,
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00:01:36.959 --> 00:01:42.760
and the silken sad uncertain rustling of
each purple curtain thrilled me, filled
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00:01:42.799 --> 00:01:48.319
me with fantastic terrors never felt before, So that now to still the beating
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00:01:48.359 --> 00:01:53.480
of my heart, I stood,
repeating, tis some visitor entreating entrance at
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my chamber door, some late visitor
entreating entrance at my chamber door. That
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is it, and nothing more.
Presently my soul grew stronger, hesitating,
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Then no longer, sir, I
said, or madam, truly your forgiveness,
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00:02:14.520 --> 00:02:17.639
I implore. But the fact is
I was napping, and so gently
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you came rapping, and so faintly
you came tapping tapping at my chamber door
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that I scarce was sure I heard
you here. I opened wide the door.
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Darkness there, and nothing more.
Deep into that darkness, peering long,
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I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams. No
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00:02:42.159 --> 00:02:47.639
mortal ever dared dream before. But
the silence was unbroken, and the stillness
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00:02:47.759 --> 00:02:54.439
gave no token. And the only
word there spoken was the whispered word leonor
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00:02:57.599 --> 00:03:06.919
this I whispered, and an echo
back the word lenor merely this and nothing
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00:03:06.960 --> 00:03:13.680
more back into the chamber, turning
all my soul within me burning. Soon
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00:03:13.759 --> 00:03:20.240
again I heard a tapping somewhat louder
than before. Surely said I, surely
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that is something at my window lattice. Let me let me see then what
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thereat is, and this mystery explore. Let my heart be still a moment,
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And this mystery explore tis the wind, and nothing more open. Here
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00:03:38.879 --> 00:03:44.479
I flung the shutter, when,
with many a flirt and flutter in their
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00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:51.080
step to stately raven of the saintly
days of yore, not the least obbeisance
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00:03:51.280 --> 00:03:55.080
made he not a minute stopped or
stayed. He but with mine of Lord
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00:03:55.199 --> 00:04:01.840
or lady, perched above my chamber
door, perched upon a bust of polluce,
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00:04:02.319 --> 00:04:09.520
just above my chamber door, perched
and sat, and nothing more then
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00:04:09.560 --> 00:04:15.840
this ebony bird, beguiling my sad
fancy into smiling by the graven stern decorum
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00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:20.639
of the counterance it wore. Though
thy chest be shorn and shaven, Thou,
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I said, art sure, no
craven, ghastly, grim and ancient
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raven wandering from the knightly shore.
Tell me that thy lordly name is on
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the night's Plutonian shore. Quoth the
raven never more much? I marveled this
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ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly
though it answer little mean it little relevancy
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bore, for we cannot help agreeing. But no living human being ever yet
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was blessed with seeing bird above his
chamber door, bird or beast upon the
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00:05:00.800 --> 00:05:10.959
sculptured bust above his chamber door,
with such a name as nevermore. But
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00:05:11.120 --> 00:05:15.399
the raven, sitting lonely on the
placid bust, spoke only that one word,
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as if his soul. In that
one word he did out pour nothing
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00:05:20.439 --> 00:05:25.920
farther than he uttered, not a
feather. Then he fluttered till I scarcely
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00:05:26.040 --> 00:05:30.240
more than uttered other friends have flown
before. On the morrow, he believe
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me as my hopes have flown before. Then the bird said, nevermore.
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Startled at the stillness broken by reply
so aptly spoken, doubtless, said I
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what it utters, It is only
stock and store caught from some unhappy master,
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whom unmerciful disaster followed fast, and
followed faster till his song one burden
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00:06:00.240 --> 00:06:08.319
bore till the dirges of his hope, that melancholy burden bore of never nevermore.
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00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:15.399
But the ravens still beguiling all my
fancy into smiling straight, I wheeled
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00:06:15.399 --> 00:06:19.240
a cushioned seat in front of the
bird, and bust and door. Then
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00:06:19.360 --> 00:06:25.720
upon the velvet sinking, I betook
myself to linking fancy under fancy, thinking
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what this ominous bird of your,
What this grim ungainly, ghastly god,
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00:06:32.360 --> 00:06:45.399
an ominous bird of your meant in
croaking? Nevermore? This I sat engaged
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in guessing, but no syllable expressing
to the fowl, whose fiery eyes now
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00:06:50.079 --> 00:06:56.000
burned into my bosom's core. This
and more I sat divining, with my
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00:06:56.160 --> 00:07:02.120
head at ease, reclining on the
cushion's velvet lining that the lamplight gloated over.
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00:07:04.160 --> 00:07:10.720
But whose velvet violet lining, with
the lamp light gloating over, she
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shall press ah nevermore? Then,
methought the air grew denser, perfumed from
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00:07:23.240 --> 00:07:30.600
an unseen censor swung by saraphin,
whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor.
68
00:07:31.040 --> 00:07:35.680
Wretch, I cried, Thy God
hath lent thee by these angels. He
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00:07:35.759 --> 00:07:41.759
hath sent thee respite, respite and
the penthe from thy memories of Lenore.
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00:07:42.879 --> 00:07:49.680
Quaff Oh Quaffa is kind the penthe, And forget this lost lenor quote the
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raven nevermore prophet said, I thing
of evil Prophet, Still, if bird
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00:07:59.800 --> 00:08:03.600
or devil, whether tempter sent,
or whether tempest does be here, ashore,
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00:08:05.120 --> 00:08:09.240
desolate, yell all undaunted on this
desert land, enchanted on this home
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00:08:09.319 --> 00:08:13.720
by horror, haunted. Tell me
truly, I implore, is there balm
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00:08:13.839 --> 00:08:20.959
and j lead, Tell me,
tell me I implore. Quote the Raven
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nevermore. Prophet said, I thing
of evil Prophet, Still, if bird
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00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:33.200
or devil, by that heaven that
bends above us, by that god,
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00:08:33.240 --> 00:08:37.559
we both adore. Tell this soul
with sorrow laden. If within the distance,
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00:08:37.639 --> 00:08:43.440
aiden it shall clasp a sainted maiden
whom the angels named Leonore, clasp
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00:08:43.519 --> 00:08:54.320
a rare and radiant maiden whom the
angels named Lenore. Quote the raven nevermore.
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00:08:56.080 --> 00:09:01.039
Be that word our sign of parting
bird, our fiend, I shrieked
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00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:05.120
up, starting get thee back into
the tempest the Knight's plutonian shore. Leave
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00:09:05.200 --> 00:09:09.720
no black plume as a token of
that lie thy soul hath spoken, Leave
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00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:15.639
my loneliness unbroken. Quit the bust
above my door, Take thy beak from
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out my heart, and take thy
form from off my door, quoth the
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raven nevermore. And the raven,
never flitting still, is sitting still,
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is sitting on the pallid bust of
palace just above my chamber door, And
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00:09:35.840 --> 00:09:41.159
his eyes have all the seeming of
the demons that is dreaming, and the
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00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:48.440
lamplight o'er him, streaming throws his
shadow on the floor, and my soul
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from out that shadow that lies floating
on the floor shall be lifted nevermore. Lovey kais
