Hello listeners this is the last of the sometime stories and it's not even a story and it wasn't on sometimes but I have to put it into a series and this one fits the bill best so So here it is. It's Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven.

And I was asked to read this for a really wonderful animated video by Smile Titans publishing on YouTube just last year in 2020.

I'll post a link to the video in the show notes of this episode, but most likely you won't be able to see it using your

you know your podcast app so just search on YouTube or Google video search for

Po Raven Bennett and you'll find it easily enough. And while you're at it,

you may also like to check out a video that Smile Titans did for my reading of H.P. Lovecraft's Degon, which is obviously

whole story video, and is equally fab. But anyway, enough of my jibber, here's the poem. I hope you enjoy it.

The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

Bred by Mike Bennett

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, over many acquainted and curious volume of forgotten law. While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came

a tapping, as of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.

Some visitor, I muttered, tapping at my chamber door.

Only this and nothing more.

Ah, distinctly I I remember, it was in the bleak December, and each separate dying

ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.

Eagerly I wished the morrow.

Vanely I had sought to borrow from my books,

Sir Cease of sorrow., for the lost Lenore, for the rare and radiant maiden

whom the angels name Lenore, nameless here forever more.

And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain thrilled me, filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before, so that now to

still the beating of my heart I stood repeating, it is some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door, some late visitor

entreating entrance at my chamber door, this it is, and nothing more.

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