THIS IS NOT A RAVEN

"Startled at the stillness broken by reply so aptly spoken,
"Doubtless," said I, "what it utters is its only stock and store,
Caught from some unhappy masters whom unmerciful Disaster
Followed fast and followed faster till his songs one burden bore -
Till the dirges of his Hope that melancholy burden bore
                                                                   Of 'Never-nevermore."

Edgar Allan Poe, O Corvo, trad. Fernando Pessoa e Machado de Assis, Lisboa: Relógio D'Água, 2009, p. 58.