Raven Against a Bright-Dark Sky

Raven Against a Bright-Dark Sky.
Hollyburn Trail, Cypress Mountain, Vancouver, Dec. 28th, 2006.

The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe, 1845.

But the Raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling,
Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird, and bust and door;
Then upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking
Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore -
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt and ominous bird of yore
Meant in croaking “Nevermore.”