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4236 - Sunset Beach, North Carolina, United States

This is a wonderful card from Sunset Beach. She asks if I like Edgar Allan Poe (yes), and apologizes for their 'president.' The quote on the front is from Poe's most famous poem, The Raven.  He wrote it in 1845 and is a narrative poem. It tells of a distraught lover who is paid a visit by a mysterious raven that repeatedly speaks a single word - nevermore. It was first printed in the New York Evening Mirror on 29 January 1845. Here is the poem: 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 some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. “’Tis some visitor,” I muttered, “tapping at my chamber door—             Only this and nothing more.”     Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December; And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost...