Lyra Bicyclica, By J. G. Dalton, Boston,
Hodges & Co., 1880.
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THE RAVEN.
Scene—Study in Chief Secretary’s Lodge, Phœnix Park.[9]G.O.T. loquitor—
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary
Over two delightful volumes rich in biographic lore.
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping
As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
“’Tis the footman with the tumblers, tapping at my chamber door—
Only that and nothing more.”