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Raven, dreary flake of night

Drifting in the eye of day

Where this raven roams forlorn

Veins of midnight flaw the morn

And the universal chime

Falter out of tune and time

Coils the labyrinthine sea

Duteous to the lunar will

In the night

When you lie alone

Haunted by a shadow

On silent wings

When the bird becomes a thought

And the thought becomes a dream

And the dream, outspread on high

Lords it over the abject sky

He not less will croak and croak

As he ever caws and caws

Till the starry dance he broke

Till the sphery paean pause

The Raven's Shadow

In the night

When you lie alone

Haunted by a shadow

On silent wings