Gabe – The Roommate From Hell

136: While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,

137: Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before

138: `Surely,’ said I, `surely that is something at my window lattice;

139: Let me see then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore –

140: Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore; –

141: Much I marveled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,

142: Though its answer little meaning – little relevancy bore;

143: For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being

144: Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door –

145: With such name as `Nevermore.’

398: around were numbers of Eagle like men, who built palaces in the immense cliffs.

399: In the fourth chamber were Lions of flaming fire raging around & melting the metals into living fluids.

The Roommate From Hell