The raven once in snowy plumes was dress'd, White as the whitest dove's unsullied breast, Fair as the guardian of the Capitol, Soft as the swan; a large and lovely fowl; His tongue, his prating tongue, had changed him quite To sooty blackness from the purest white.

The ravens are goneto Auvergne, so it is said, because they do not like hot weather.

Close by the door, no further, in his chair The old man sits; and sitteth there His soul within him, like a child that lies Half dreaming, with his half-shut eyes, At close of a long afternoon in summer; High ruins round him, ancient ruins, where The raven is almost the only comer;

With equal perversity, Poe endeavored to persuade the public that his "Raven" was the result of mere aesthetical deductions!

HOW "THE RAVEN" WAS WRITTEN XII.

The raven and Canadian and short-billed jays were the only species recognised as being equally numerous at their breeding-places in winter and summer.

But the raven was Akka's friend; and it was from him she had learned that Flammea owned a treasure like this.

and don't you know the ravens fed the old gentleman in the desert, an' that folks now say they were Arabs, because the ravens are dirty birds an' live on carrion, an' it stands to reason Elija couldn't touch that if he hed an ordinary stumach.

The Ravens were thewhat do you call ityou know what I meannucleus of the troop.

Ravens are sacred birds to them, and are never molested in anyway.