Other friends have flown before— On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before. Then the bird said, Nevermore. Startled.

We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass.

I will, therefore, take occasion to assert that the higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by a the elaborate frivolity of chess.

This latter was a remarkably large and beautiful animal, entirely black, and sagacious to an astonishing degree.

Never— nevermore.

That is another of your odd notions," said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing "odd" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of "oddities.

I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of the golden sand— How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep While I weep—while I weep!

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams.

You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders.

It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all.