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Once upon a midnight dreary. while I pondered, weak and weary

over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore-....

While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there come a tapping,

As of some one, gentty rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

?Tis some visitor'' I muttered, tapping at my chamber door....

Only this and nothing more....

(Fretless Bass solo)

Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December,

and each seperate dying ember wrough its ghost upon the floor.

Eagerly I wished the morrow-... Vainly I had sought to borrow

from my books surcease of sorrow.... Sorrow for the lost Lenore-...

For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore-...

Nameless here for evermore...