Nevermore!

MAGPIE TALES

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NEVERMORE!


If I were Edgar Allan Poe
Returned again to this earth below
I'd cast my eyes on this illustration
And let out a massive exclamation.....
'We must call it 'Nevermore!
I've used the word with success before!
It captures that feeling of hopeless love
Which I was frequently speaking of!
There's also a raven! A craven bird
Who frequently uttered my favourite word!
Look! I see a Plutonian Shore!
I like this picture more and more!
Yes! I like it! It tries to capture
My poetic theme of desperate rapture.'
Thus would he speak and, gratified,
He'd depart to the Other Side.
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An illustration from the era.

A quote from E.A.P himself!

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 Night's Plutonian shore!"

Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

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WINTER-RAIN CREEK.

A creek-bed, soon to be dry.

Sympathising trees bow low in farewell.

And, on an unseen bridge, people watching and waiting.

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