So here it is for your downloading pleasure. Read along below, and marvel at how Poe brought out the cute and/or sexy in everyone's voices. Great job, all!
Happy Halloween...
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Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore,
Starr: While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
Only this, and nothing more."
And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.
Runswithlag: Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow, sorrow for the lost Lenore,
Nameless here forevermore.
Thrilled me--filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
" 'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door,
This it is, and nothing more."
"Sir," said I, "or madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
Darkness there, and nothing more.
Amanda, age 6: Deep into the darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before;
Ben, age 7: But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word,
"Lenore!" Merely this, and nothing more.
Soon again I heard a tapping, something louder than before,
Let me see, then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore.
" 'Tis the wind, and nothing more."
In there stepped a stately raven, of the saintly days of yore.
But with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door.
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
Ghastly, grim, and ancient raven, wandering from the nightly shore.
Minyaliel: Tell me what the lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore."
Quoth the raven, "Nevermore."
Though its answer little meaning, little relevancy bore;
Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door,
With such name as "Nevermore."
The full text of "The Raven" is here.