sound report 1

The speaker asks the prophet-like raven if it knows if he will ever be reunited with a woman named Lenore. The raven responds with "nevermore." The speaker then commands the raven to leave and not leave any evidence of its presence. Prophet, said I, thing of evil, prophet still, if bird or devil, by that heaven that bends above us, by that God we both adore, tell this soul with sorrow laden, if within the distant Aden, it shall clasp a saint and maiden, whom the angels name Lenore, clasp a rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels name Lenore, quote the raven, nevermore. Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend, I shrieked upstarting, get thee back into the tempest and the night's plutonium shore, leave no black plume as a token of that lie the soul hath spoken.