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Date: 4/6/25 9:55 am
From: catherine paris <cparis12010...>
Subject: The Raven |
With apologies to Poe.
Once upon a midnight dreary,
while I pondered weak and weary,
"Over a lifetime of effort and hope, whilst someone was ripping down
Nature's door"
Eagerly I wished the morrow; -
vainly I sought to borrow
From my books
" of science and knowledge"
surcease of sorrow - sorrow
for the lost " progress and
momentum"
For the rare and radiant maiden
"Mother earth"
And the silken, sad, uncertain
tearing of
"Of each protective curtain"
Filled me with terrors never felt before.
Not the least obeisance made he;
Not a minute stopped or stayed he.
But with the mein of lord..., perched above my chamber door, was a raven
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, tell me what thy
name is!
Quote the Raven, 'Nevermore'.
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmercifal Disaster followed fast and
followed faster...
till the dirges of our hope that melancholy burden bore
Of 'Never -nevermore'.
Take thy beak from out of my heart...
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie
thy soul hath spoken!
And my soul from out that shadow
shall be lifted - nevermore.
Catherine Paris
<cparis12010...>
Ozark County
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