I am drunk: Not so,—I swore.

Drunk? I drunk? I’ve not been drinking;

I’m but overcome with thinking;

There I saw that Raven winking

In the middle of the floor.

Doctor! there’s the Raven rampant

In the middle of the floor;

He has hopp’d straight through the door.

Look! his curst wings brush the dust off

That fallen, broken, batter’d bust of