“"Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store,
Caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster
Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore.”

— Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

Stanza 11.
The Raven (1844)

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American author, poet, editor and literary critic 1809–1849

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