“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,

Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore –

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

As of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.”

Edgar Allen Poe

“The Raven,” st. 1

1809-1849

*Source: Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations