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The speaker of this poem dismisses a remark as "stock and store / caught from some unhappy master whom unmerciful Disaster / followed fast" and asks a visitor to tell him "what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore." That same visitor in this poem is implored "is there balm in Gilead?" while he perches on a "bust of Pallas." This poem's speaker laments the loss of his beloved Lenore, and this poem begins "once upon a midnight dreary." For 10 points, name this poem about a bird that caws "nevermore," written by Edgar Allan Poe.
a) "The Raven"
b) "The Tell-Tale Heart"
c) "Annabel Lee"
d) "The Masque of the Red Death"

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