[Marion Shore]

The Raven rewritten by Robert Frost

What bird this is, I think I know,
it's black enough to be a crow,
with beady eye and pointed tail –
I think it is a raven though.

It flew in from the winter gale,
when I went out to get the mail,
and perched upon a Grecian bust
I picked up at a rummage sale.

"Tell me, bird," I said, "why must
you haunt my simple home? I trust
you could find churchyards by the score,
and Gothic manses full of dust –

Besides, you’re messing up the floor.
So kindly show yourself the door—"
Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.”
Quoth the raven, “Nevermore.”