The Raven Perched Above Bow River Falls

by Nina Silver

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The Raven Perched Above Bow River Falls

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Nina Silver

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Photograph - Digital Photograph With Creative Digital Enhancements

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"...Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore;
Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door
Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.

Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou, I said, art sure no craven,
Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Nights Plutonian shore!
Quoth the Raven Nevermore.

Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,
Though its answer little meaning little relevancy bore;
For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being
Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door
Bird or beast upon the sculptured bust above his chamber door,

With such name as Nevermore.

But the Raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only
That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.

Nothing farther then he uttered not a feather then he fluttered
Till I scarcely more than muttered Other friends have flown before

On the morrow he will leave me, as my Hopes have flown before.

Then the bird said Nevermore....

- From 'The Raven', by Edgar Allan Poe, 1845

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