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Rh as was admissible—is given to the Raven's entrance. He comes in "with many a flirt and flutter."

In the two stanzas which follow, the design is more obviously carried out:—

The effect of the dénouement being thus provided for, I immediately drop the fantastic for a tone of the most profound seriousness:—this tone commencing in the stanza directly following the one last quoted, with the line,

From this epoch the lover no longer jests—no longer sees anything even of the fantastic in the Raven's demeanor. He speaks of him as a "grim,