WEBVTT 00:00:00.632 --> 00:00:01.822 The Raven NOTE Paragraph 00:00:02.472 --> 00:00:07.912 Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary. 00:00:08.112 --> 00:00:12.292 Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore. 00:00:12.292 --> 00:00:15.932 While I nodded, nearly napping, Suddenly there came a tapping, 00:00:16.442 --> 00:00:20.122 As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. 00:00:20.122 --> 00:00:25.022 "Just some visitor", I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door. 00:00:25.022 --> 00:00:27.537 Only this and nothing more." 00:00:27.537 --> 00:00:29.356 BART: Are we scared yet? 00:00:29.356 --> 00:00:31.706 LISA: Bart! He's establishing mood. 00:00:31.706 --> 00:00:35.966 Ahhh, distinctly I remember, it was in the bleak December. 00:00:35.966 --> 00:00:39.376 And each separate dying ember, wrought its ghost upon the floor. 00:00:39.396 --> 00:00:43.236 Eagerly I wished the morrow, vainly I had sought to borrow 00:00:43.236 --> 00:00:46.256 from my books surcease of sorrow, 00:00:47.227 --> 00:00:49.657 sorrow for the lost Lenore. 00:00:49.667 --> 00:00:51.367 Ohhh Leonor!!!!!!! 00:00:51.367 --> 00:00:55.327 For the rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels name Lenore. 00:00:55.327 --> 00:00:57.807 Nameless here for evermore. 00:00:57.807 --> 00:00:58.921 Ahhhhhh 00:00:59.944 --> 00:01:03.684 And the silken, sad, uncertain rustling of each purple curtain 00:01:03.684 --> 00:01:08.254 thrilled me—filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; 00:01:08.254 --> 00:01:11.024 So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating 00:01:11.024 --> 00:01:13.064 "Tis a visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door 00:01:13.064 --> 00:01:14.724 This it is and nothing more." 00:01:14.724 --> 00:01:18.394 Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer 00:01:18.394 --> 00:01:23.604 “Sir,” said I, “or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore. 00:01:23.685 --> 00:01:27.579 But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping 00:01:27.579 --> 00:01:30.519 And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door. 00:01:30.519 --> 00:01:34.859 That I scarce was sure I heard you” —here I opened wide the door... 00:01:34.859 --> 00:01:37.662 BART: This better be good... 00:01:37.662 --> 00:01:40.422 Darkness there and nothing more. 00:01:41.262 --> 00:01:43.302 BART: You what would have been scarier than nothing? 00:01:43.302 --> 00:01:44.972 LISA: What??? BART: Anything! 00:01:44.972 --> 00:01:48.822 Back into the chamber turning, All my soul within me burning, 00:01:48.822 --> 00:01:52.602 Soon again I heard a tapping something louder than before. 00:01:53.697 --> 00:01:57.227 “Surely,” said I, “surely that is something at my window lattice; 00:01:57.227 --> 00:02:00.827 Let me see, then, what there at is, and this mystery explore." 00:02:00.827 --> 00:02:04.017 Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter, 00:02:04.017 --> 00:02:06.877 In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore; 00:02:06.877 --> 00:02:10.077 Not the least obeisance made he; Not a minute stopped or stayed he 00:02:10.077 --> 00:02:13.437 But, with mien of lord or lady, Perched above my chamber door 00:02:13.437 --> 00:02:16.717 Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door. 00:02:16.717 --> 00:02:19.127 Perched, and sat, and nothing more. 00:02:19.127 --> 00:02:20.537 "Hehehehe. 00:02:20.537 --> 00:02:25.757 Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,” I said, “art sure no craven. 00:02:25.757 --> 00:02:29.463 Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore. 00:02:29.463 --> 00:02:34.003 Tell me. Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night’s Plutonian shore!” 00:02:34.003 --> 00:02:35.473 Quoth the Raven; 00:02:35.473 --> 00:02:36.403 BART: Eat my shorts! 00:02:36.403 --> 00:02:38.623 LISA: Bart, stop it! He says “Nevermore” 00:02:38.623 --> 00:02:40.516 and that's all he'll ever say. 00:02:40.516 --> 00:02:41.776 BART: Ok, ok. 00:02:45.770 --> 00:02:50.383 Then, me thought, the air grew denser, Perfumed by some unseen censer 00:02:50.383 --> 00:02:52.023 "D'oh! Stupid censer.." 00:02:52.023 --> 00:02:55.783 Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor. 00:02:55.783 --> 00:02:59.703 “Wretch,” I cried, “thy God hath lent thee —by these angels he hath sent thee 00:02:59.703 --> 00:03:02.603 Respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore. 00:03:02.603 --> 00:03:07.983 Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!” 00:03:07.983 --> 00:03:09.693 Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” 00:03:09.693 --> 00:03:14.741 "D'oh! Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!” I shrieked, upstarting, 00:03:14.741 --> 00:03:18.761 “Get thee back into the tempest and the Night’s Plutonian shore! 00:03:18.761 --> 00:03:23.681 Leave no black plume as a token of the lie thy soul hath spoken! 00:03:23.681 --> 00:03:27.941 Leave my loneliness unbroken! —quit the bust above my door! 00:03:27.941 --> 00:03:33.801 Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” 00:03:33.801 --> 00:03:35.971 Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” 00:03:36.002 --> 00:03:41.262 "Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!” 00:03:41.262 --> 00:03:42.982 Quoth the Raven “Nevermore.” 00:03:42.982 --> 00:03:44.402 "Why you little..." "Uh-oh." 00:03:47.457 --> 00:03:49.297 "Come back here you little raven!" 00:03:59.643 --> 00:04:03.643 "Oww!!" "Nevermore. Nevermore Nevermore. Nevermore..." 00:04:11.142 --> 00:04:11.622 "Ow." 00:04:12.582 --> 00:04:13.162 "Ow." 00:04:13.206 --> 00:04:17.696 And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting 00:04:17.696 --> 00:04:21.096 On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door; 00:04:21.096 --> 00:04:24.993 And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon’s that is dreaming, 00:04:24.993 --> 00:04:28.553 And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor; 00:04:28.553 --> 00:04:32.813 And my soul from out that shadow, that lies floating on the floor, 00:04:33.008 --> 00:04:35.858 shall be lifted—nevermore! 00:04:36.461 --> 00:04:37.771 Hahahaha