Quothe the Raven

On this date in 1845, Edgar Allen Poe's The Raven was published in the New York Evening Mirror.

"And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming.
And the lamplight o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted---nevermore!"

R.I.P. E.A.P. R.I.P.