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ONCE UPON A MIDNIGHT DREARY WHILE I PONDERED WEAK AND WEARY
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OVER MANY A QUAINT AND CURIOUS VOLUME OF FORGOTTEN LORE
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WHILE I NODDED NEARLY NAPPING SUDDENLY THERE CAME A TAPPING
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AS OF SOME ONE GENTLY RAPPING RAPPING AT MY CHAMBER DOOR
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TIS SOME VISITER I MUTTERED TAPPING AT MY CHAMBER DOOR
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ONLY THIS AND NOTHING MORE
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AH DISTINCTLY I REMEMBER IT WAS IN THE BLEAK DECEMBER
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AND EACH SEPARATE DYING EMBER WROUGHT ITS GHOST UPON THE FLOOR
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EAGERLY I WISHED THE MORROW VAINLY I HAD SOUGHT TO BORROW
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FROM MY BOOKS SURCEASE OF SORROW SORROW FOR THE LOST LENORE
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FOR THE RARE AND RADIANT MAIDEN WHOM THE ANGELS NAME LENORE
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NAMELESS HERE FOR EVERMORE
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AND THE SILKEN SAD UNCERTAIN RUSTLING OF EACH PURPLE CURTAIN
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THRILLED ME FILLED ME WITH FANTASTIC TERRORS NEVER FELT BEFORE
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SO THAT NOW TO STILL THE BEATING OF MY HEART I STOOD REPEATING
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TIS SOME VISITER ENTREATING ENTRANCE AT MY CHAMBER DOOR
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SOME LATE VISITER ENTREATING ENTRANCE AT MY CHAMBER DOOR
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THIS IT IS AND NOTHING MORE
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PRESENTLY MY SOUL GREW STRONGER HESITATING THEN NO LONGER
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SIR SAID I OR MADAM TRULY YOUR FORGIVENESS I IMPLORE
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BUT THE FACT IS I WAS NAPPING AND SO GENTLY YOU CAME RAPPING
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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
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DEEP INTO THAT DARKNESS PEERING LONG I STOOD THERE WONDERING FEARING
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DOUBTING DREAMING DREAMS NO MORTAL EVER DARED TO DREAM BEFORE
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BUT THE SILENCE WAS UNBROKEN AND THE STILLNESS GAVE NO TOKEN
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AND THE ONLY WORD THERE SPOKEN WAS THE WHISPERED WORD LENORE
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THIS I WHISPERED AND AN ECHO MURMURED BACK THE WORD LENORE
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MERELY THIS AND NOTHING MORE
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BACK INTO THE CHAMBER TURNING ALL MY SOUL WITHIN ME BURNING
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SOON AGAIN I HEARD A TAPPING SOMEWHAT LOUDER THAN BEFORE
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SURELY SAID I SURELY THAT IS SOMETHING AT MY WINDOW LATTICE
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LET ME SEE THEN WHAT THEREAT IS AND THIS MYSTERY EXPLORE
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LET MY HEART BE STILL A MOMENT AND THIS MYSTERY EXPLORE
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TIS THE WIND AND NOTHING MORE
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OPEN HERE I FLUNG THE SHUTTER WHEN WITH MANY A FLIRT AND FLUTTER
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IN THERE STEPPED A STATELY RAVEN OF THE SAINTLY DAYS OF YORE
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NOT THE LEAST OBEISANCE MADE HE NOT A MINUTE STOPPED OR STAYED HE
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BUT WITH MIEN OF LORD OR LADY PERCHED ABOVE MY CHAMBER DOOR
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PERCHED UPON A BUST OF PALLAS JUST ABOVE MY CHAMBER DOOR
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PERCHED AND SAT AND NOTHING MORE COLUMN
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THEN THIS EBONY BIRD BEGUILING MY SAD FANCY INTO SMILING
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BY THE GRAVE AND STERN DECORUM OF THE COUNTENANCE IT WORE
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THOUGH THY CREST BE SHORN AND SHAVEN THOU I SAID ART SURE NO CRAVEN
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GHASTLY GRIM AND ANCIENT RAVEN WANDERING FROM THE NIGHTLY SHORE
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TELL ME WHAT THY LORDLY NAME IS ON THE NIGHTS PLUTONIAN SHORE
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QUOTH THE RAVEN NEVERMORE
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MUCH I MARVELLED THIS UNGAINLY FOWL TO HEAR DISCOURSE SO PLAINLY
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THOUGH ITS ANSWER LITTLE MEANING LITTLE RELEVANCY BORE
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FOR WE CANNOT HELP AGREEING THAT NO LIVING HUMAN BEING
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EVER YET WAS BLESSED WITH SEEING BIRD ABOVE HIS CHAMBER DOOR
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BIRD OR BEAST UPON THE SCULPTURED BUST ABOVE HIS CHAMBER DOOR
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WITH SUCH NAME AS NEVERMORE
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BUT THE RAVEN SITTING LONELY ON THE PLACID BUST SPOKE ONLY
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THAT ONE WORD AS IF HIS SOUL IN THAT ONE WORD HE DID OUTPOUR
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NOTHING FARTHER THEN HE UTTERED NOT A FEATHER THEN HE FLUTTERED
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TILL I SCARCELY MORE THAN MUTTERED OTHER FRIENDS HAVE FLOWN BEFORE
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ON THE MORROW HE WILL LEAVE ME AS MY HOPES HAVE FLOWN BEFORE
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THEN THE BIRD SAID NEVERMORE
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STARTLED AT THE STILLNESS BROKEN BY REPLY SO APTLY SPOKEN
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DOUBTLESS SAID I WHAT IT UTTERS IS ITS ONLY STOCK AND STORE
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CAUGHT FROM SOME UNHAPPY MASTER WHOM UNMERCIFUL DISASTER
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FOLLOWED FAST AND FOLLOWED FASTER TILL HIS SONGS ONE BURDEN BORE
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TILL THE DIRGES OF HIS HOPE THAT MELANCHOLY BURDEN BORE
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OF NEVER NEVERMORE
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BUT THE RAVEN STILL BEGUILING MY SAD FANCY INTO SMILING
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STRAIGHT I WHEELED A CUSHIONED SEAT IN FRONT OF BIRD AND BUST AND DOOR
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THEN UPON THE VELVET SINKING I BETOOK MYSELF TO LINKING
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FANCY UNTO FANCY THINKING WHAT THIS OMINOUS BIRD OF YORE
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WHAT THIS GRIM UNGAINLY GHASTLY GAUNT AND OMINOUS BIRD OF YORE
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MEANT IN CROAKING NEVERMORE
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THIS I SAT ENGAGED IN GUESSING BUT NO SYLLABLE EXPRESSING
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TO THE FOWL WHOSE FIERY EYES NOW BURNED INTO MY BOSOMS CORE
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THIS AND MORE I SAT DIVINING WITH MY HEAD AT EASE RECLINING
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ON THE CUSHIONS VELVET LINING THAT THE LAMPLIGHT GLOATED OER
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BUT WHOSE VELVETVIOLET LINING WITH THE LAMPLIGHT GLOATING OER
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SHE SHALL PRESS AH NEVERMORE
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THEN METHOUGHT THE AIR GREW DENSER PERFUMED FROM AN UNSEEN CENSER
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SWUNG BY SERAPHIM WHOSE FOOTFALLS TINKLED ON THE TUFTED FLOOR
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WRETCH I CRIED THY GOD HATH LENT THEE BY THESE ANGELS HE HATH SENT THEE
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RESPITE RESPITE AND NEPENTHE FROM THY MEMORIES OF LENORE
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QUAFF OH QUAFF THIS KIND NEPENTHE AND FORGET THIS LOST LENORE
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QUOTH THE RAVEN NEVERMORE
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PROPHET SAID I THING OF EVIL PROPHET STILL IF BIRD OR DEVIL
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WHETHER TEMPTER SENT OR WHETHER TEMPEST TOSSED THEE HERE ASHORE
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DESOLATE YET ALL UNDAUNTED ON THIS DESERT LAND ENCHANTED
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ON THIS HOME BY HORROR HAUNTED TELL ME TRULY I IMPLORE
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IS THERE IS THERE BALM IN GILEAD TELL ME TELL ME I IMPLORE
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QUOTH THE RAVEN NEVERMORE
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PROPHET SAID I THING OF EVIL PROPHET STILL IF BIRD OR DEVIL
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BY THAT HEAVEN THAT BENDS ABOVE US BY THAT GOD WE BOTH ADORE
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TELL THIS SOUL WITH SORROW LADEN IF WITHIN THE DISTANT AIDENN
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IT SHALL CLASP A SAINTED MAIDEN WHOM THE ANGELS NAME LENORE
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CLASP A RARE AND RADIANT MAIDEN WHOM THE ANGELS NAME LENORE
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QUOTH THE RAVEN NEVERMORE
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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 NIGHTS PLUTONIAN SHORE
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LEAVE NO BLACK PLUME AS A TOKEN OF THAT LIE THY SOUL HATH SPOKEN
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LEAVE MY LONELINESS UNBROKEN QUIT THE BUST ABOVE MY DOOR
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TAKE THY BEAK FROM OUT MY HEART AND TAKE THY FORM FROM OFF MY DOOR
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QUOTH THE RAVEN NEVERMORE
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AND THE RAVEN NEVER FLITTING STILL IS SITTING STILL IS SITTING
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ON THE PALLID BUST OF PALLAS JUST ABOVE MY CHAMBER DOOR
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AND HIS EYES HAVE ALL THE SEEMING OF A DEMONS THAT IS DREAMING
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AND THE LAMPLIGHT OER HIM STREAMING THROWS HIS SHADOW ON THE FLOOR
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AND MY SOUL FROM OUT THAT SHADOW THAT LIES FLOATING ON THE FLOOR
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SHALL BE LIFTED NEVERMORE
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