With
endless white elephant parties, holiday cookies, and champagne toasts
on the horizon, indulgence is simply an inevitability this time of
year—and we wouldn't have it any other way. That said, even though we're
willing to feel stuffed in the name of mom's stuffing, the resulting
food coma doesn't have to be a total guarantee.
Practicing mindful eating is a really easy way to actually savor the season's treats more while feeling less like you overdid it—because by truly learning to relish every single bite, you're able to better observe how satisfied you actually are.
Most importantly, it has nothing to do with dieting or restriction. To
the contrary, mindful eating is about maximizing enjoyment.
And there's no time like the present to give it a
go. "You can practice mindful eating at a dinner party, out to dinner,
on a date, with family, or with friends," says meditation expert Amanda
Gilbert. "As long as you are being aware while you are eating, then you
are practicing mindful eating. And you can be aware and mindful even
when eating with others."
Curious how to get started? Try Gilbert's mindful eating technique for beginners below.
The 3-part technique
Step 1: Mindful
eating begins before you even put the food in your mouth. Start by
observing the color, texture, and smell of the food on your plate. Then,
"bring awareness to the utensil and the bite of food you are bringing
up to your mouth to eat," says Gilbert.
Step 2: "Mindfully
chew and savor the bite of food itself," says Gilbert. "Notice the
aromas, textures, and pleasure of eating this one bite of food."
Step 3: Maintain that awareness as you swallow and put your utensil down. Then, repeat this technique again with the next bite of food.
"When you bring your mindful awareness to what you
are about to eat, how you eat, and to how hungry or full you become,
this greatly increases the possibility of making healthier eating
choices," says Gilbert. "It also
allows us to slow down and savor our food more so we do not end up
overeating regularly." In other words, it's an easy way to ensure that
you truly enjoy every bite this holiday season—"healthy" or not—and
evade the token food coma afterward.
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet;
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
General Medical Council says health of patients at risk with trainee medics forced to ‘act beyond clinical competence’
The safety of hospital patients is being put at risk because inexperienced young doctors are too often being left in charge of A&E and other units, Britain’s medical regulator has warned.
Understaffing and pressures on senior doctors mean trainee medics are being forced to “fend for themselves” by looking after patients whose conditions they are not qualified to treat, said the General Medical Council, which has shared the findings of an in-depth study with the Guardian.
“We are very worried when trainees tell us that they have been put in a position where they have been asked to act above and beyond their clinical competence and capabilities. That’s a concern because it creates very clear risks to patients from doctors who may not know what they’re doing,” said the GMC’s chief executive, Charlie Massey.
“In some cases trainees are being left to fend for themselves when they clearly don’t have the competence to make the decisions about patients’ treatment that are being asked of them. That’s a real concern. Significant proportion of trainees, especially those early in their careers, feel very exposed in terms of what they are being asked to do,” added Massey.
“Trainees left in this situation feel agitated and anxious that they don’t have enough supervision and worried that they might inadvertently cause harm to patients,” he added.
The boss of the regulator warned that junior doctors who act beyond their competence “are at risk of losing their licence” if the care they give a patient proves to be substandard and damages the patient’s health.
In its annual survey of the education and training received by Britain’s 55,000 junior doctors, the GMC heard about incidents that caused it concern about them being left in charge, despite their inexperience.
In one hospital a group of young foundation-year doctors not long out of medical school began an overnight rotation in the A&E unit despite having had no induction or assessment of their skills. “There was a very real risk that they could be working beyond their competence because they were on a night shift with limited supervision, therefore they might have had to undertake tasks for which they weren’t qualified,” said Massey.
In another emergency department a foundation-year doctor on duty in the resuscitation unit called three times for support from senior colleagues but no one came to help her. “She had no choice but to make decisions about that patient herself, even though she wasn’t confident that she was competent to do so.”
Senior medics in a third A&E unit reported that junior doctors were displaying symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder, such as continually interrupted sleep and uncertain decision-making. “That worried them and that worried us.”
Dr Sarah Hallett, the deputy chair of the British Medical Association’s junior doctors committee, said: “It is an all too common problem that many junior doctors move into new posts without a thorough induction.
“This is not the fault of senior doctors, who we know are under immense pressures and face ever-increasing workloads in a health service that is more and more overstretched. Despite this, it is crucial that junior doctors have access to appropriate training, and are able to work in an environment that is safe for both them and their patients.”
A year on from the junior doctors dispute in England that prompted eight walkouts by trainees, the number rating their training as good or very good remains high at 76%. However, “a worrying number of doctors in training continue to raise concerns about heavy workloads and shortness of sleep while on duty, with some missing educational opportunities because of these pressures”, the GMC’s report says.
About 40% of trainees across all four home countries said their workloads were heavy or very heavy, although that is slightly fewer than last year.
54% work beyond their rostered hours, either daily or weekly.
22% regularly feel short of sleep while they are on duty.
Now we are used to getting astonishing offers on the Black Friday in Spain, but it is something relatively new in our culture. As there is such a big difference in the prices, a lot of people decide to wait until Black Friday to get what they need or buy their Christmas presents in advance to be able to save money or even to be able to get more items for the same price.
Let's see where this special day comes from. Click here to see a short but well explained video:
We have here a really interesting article sent by Javier about the importance of the time of the day to heal wounds. Thanks, Javier!
You can click here to watch a short but really interesting video: Daytime_wounds
The antidote to a bad scrape-up is usually a fairly simple recipe: antibiotics, bandages, and time. Now, a new study suggests that timing also matters. Skin cells that help patch up wounds work more quickly in the daytime than they do at night, thanks to the workings of our circadian clock. The finding suggests patients might recover from injury more quickly if they have surgery during the right time of day.
Biologists and neuroscientists long thought the body’s time keeper, our circadian clock, resided only in the brain. In mammals, that place is a region of the hypothalamus called the suprachiasmatic nucleus, which receives signals from the eyes. However, recent research demonstrated that cells in other parts of the body—including the lungs and liver—keep their own time. Researchers aren’t quite sure how they maintain their own 24-hour schedule, whereas other cells need external reminders.
To find out, John O’Neill, a biologist at the Medical Research Council’s Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, U.K., and his team studied skin cells known as fibroblasts, which are essential for wound healing. Fibroblasts invade the void left by a scratch and lay the foundation for new skin to grow. The cells are also known to keep their own time. For example, cultured cells exhibit rhythmic oscillations in gene expression where there is no input from the master clock.
Given the fibroblasts’ time-keeping abilities, O’Neill and colleagues searched for proteins within the cells that ebb and flow with daily rhythms. They came back with an unexpected result: Proteins that direct the construction of the cell’s actin-based skeleton worked daytime shifts. These cellular contractors tell fibroblasts to move into an injury to begin the healing process. So the finding suggests that the time of day a wound occurs may affect how quickly it heals. Such a “skyscraper” hypothesis seems reasonable, says Steven Brown, a chronobiologist at the University of Zurich in Switzerland who was not involved in the study. “To build a complex tissue over several days, it makes sense to import building materials in a regularly timed fashion,” he says.
The researchers then tested that hypothesis with cells grown in a flat layer in a petri dish. The fibroblasts filled in scratches more quickly during the day than at night. “You can see by eye, when the cell is wounded only 8 hours apart from each other, in a different circadian phase, the [daytime] wounded ones take off, and the [nighttime] one drags,” O’Neill says.
The researchers then showed in mice that skin wounds suffered during waking hours healed better than ones incurred during resting hours. What’s more, those increases lined up with the cell culture data. About twice as many fibroblasts migrated into the daytime wounds as nighttime ones. “We were really astonished,” O’Neill says.
Finally, O’Neill and colleagues looked for evidence of such an effect in humans. The team examined data from the International Burn Injury Database, which records, among other things, the time of day an injury occurred. The analysis revealed that nighttime burns took an average of 11 days longer to heal than burns incurred during the day, the researchers report today in Science Translational Medicine. Brown calls the findings insightful. “I find it fascinating that even though wound healing takes days, a circadian clock is still used to optimize different aspects of the process.”
O’Neill says that the time-varying response may be an evolutionary adaptation. As people are more likely to sustain injuries when awake than when sleeping, perhaps our bodies are primed to respond more quickly in the daytime. But he emphasizes the need for further controlled clinical studies to confirm the effect. He speculates that, if real, the effect could help people recover more quickly by scheduling surgeries in time with their personal circadian rhythms, earlier for morning larks and later for night owls.
A British doctor who was attacked by a shark on the New South Wales
central coast while surfing says he owes Mick Fanning a drink after
copying the professional surfer’s tactics and punching the animal off.
Charlie Fry, 25, was surfing with three friends at Avoca beach on Monday afternoon when a shark hit him on the shoulder.
“I said: ‘Just do what Mick did, just punch it in the nose’,” Fry
told the Nine Network on Tuesday. “If you are watching or listening,
Mick, I owe you a beer, thank you very much.”
Fry said he was up to 40 metres offshore when the shark jumped out of the water and hit him on the right shoulder.
“I got this massive thud on my right-hand side, which completely
blindsided me. I thought it was a friend goofing around. I turned and I
saw this shark come out of the water and breach its head.
“I punched it in the face with my left hand ... and managed to
scramble back on my board, shout at my friends. Luckily a wave came, so I
just surfed the wave in,” he said.
“I was just surfing, [saying] get in as fast as possible, ride the
wave as fast as possible, ride the wave as long as you can and start
paddling for your life essentially. It was very, very hectic. Very, very
hectic.”
Fry said he was not conscious of his injured and bleeding arm until he reached the shore.
“I didn’t really notice it at the time because when you’re surfing,
all I’m thinking was: ‘I’m about to die. I’m literally about to die’,”
Fry said.
He was taken to Gosford hospital with scratches and a puncture wound on his shoulder.
The Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopters said a three-metre shark,
probably a bronze whaler, had been sighted in the surf zone at Avoca.
Avoca Beach and North Avoca will remain closed for Tuesday.
Australian surfing great Fanning was attacked by a great white while competing at Jeffreys Bay in South Africa in 2015 and walked away physically unscathed after fighting it off.
Fry indicated he would be taking a break from surfing for the foreseeable future.
“I probably wouldn’t go to that point for a while. It is called
‘shark tower’ for a reason, so I will probably just go somewhere else,”
he said. “I mean, the surf was rubbish. It wasn’t even worth it.”
The Guardian
Uber signs contract with Nasa to develop flying taxi software
Ambitious plans for electric drone-like flying cabs take step forward as Uber announces plans to test flights in LA in 2020
Uber has taken a step forward in its plan to make autonomous “flying taxis” a reality, signing a contract with Nasa to develop the software to manage them.
The company’s chief product officer, Jeff Holden, announced the new
service contract at Web Summit in Lisbon, alongside its intention to
begin testing four-passenger, 200mph UberAir flying taxi services across
Los Angeles in 2020, its second test market in the US after Dallas.
Uber said its flying taxi service would be purely electric and that a
journey that would take 80 minutes by car in rush-hour traffic could be
reduced to as little as four minutes. Uber
intends to have some form of its air service operational for the 2028
LA Olympics, but experts remain sceptical as to whether autonomous
flying taxis will ever become a reality.
Holden said: “Doing this safely and efficiently is going to require a
foundational change in airspace management technologies. Combining
Uber’s software engineering expertise with Nasa’s decades of airspace
experience to tackle this is a crucial step forward.”
The Space Act agreement, which has been used by Nasa to contract out
the development of rockets since the late 1950s, will see Uber
participate in a project to develop unmanned traffic management systems
as well as the low-altitude unmanned aerial systems (drones) that will
be governed by it.
Uber said it did not plan to make the drones itself,
instead partnering with five manufacturers that are working on new
types of vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) aircraft. This year Uber
hired two Nasa veterans, Mark Moore and Tom Prevot, to run its aircraft
vehicle design team and its air traffic management software programme
respectively.
Uber has also signed a deal with Sanstone Properties, which has 20
sites across the greater LA area, for plans to build “skyports” that
will serve as takeoff and drop-off points for flying taxis.
Eric Garcetti, the mayor of LA, who backed Uber’s testing in the
area, said: “Los Angeles has always been a place where innovators come
to build new ideas that can change how we live our lives. LA is the
perfect testing ground for this new technology and I look forward to
seeing it grow in the coming years.” Kimberly Harris-Ferrante and Michael Ramsey,
analysts at Gartner, said: “Flying autonomous vehicle technology is
developing rapidly, but it’s likely to be more disruptive than
transformational. High costs, safety concerns and regulatory burdens are
likely to limit the use of this overhyped technology.”
Such hurdles include the need for approval from the US Federal
Aviation Administration for operation outside of normal aircraft
corridors, which will be difficult to obtain due to stringent safety and
regulation requirements.
Uber has faced endless regulatory and legal battles around the world
since it launched its ride-hailing services this decade, including in
London where it is battling to retain its licence after having been
stripped of it by city regulators over safety concerns.
The firm said it was attempting to change its methods, engaging with
regulators in the US and Europe early to win approval for flying taxis. A
senior Uber executive told Reuters the company was “very much embracing
the regulatory bodies and starting very early in discussions about this
and getting everyone aligned with the vision”.
The Guardian
Miriam Lancewood has been living off grid,
in the wild, for seven years now and she can still pinpoint the exact
moment she knew she had truly broken with social norms. “It was when the
idea was born to wash my hair with urine,” she recalls.
She had just started living wild, in the Australian Alps,
when she developed a persistent dandruff problem. Luckily, she
remembered reading about an ancient remedy. “I sat in the sun for a
horrible, stinky half-hour to let it soak in.”
I’d expected Miriam to look bedraggled, maybe with a couple of teeth
missing, but she’s immaculate and smiling broadly, her teeth shiny white
(she usually cleans them with ash); no dandruff, legs shaven, she
smells of campfire. She is powerfully built; almost the double of Sarah Connor from The Terminator.
A Dutch Sarah Connor – she was born in Holland. Her husband, Peter,
proudly tells me she could beat most men in a fight: “Miriam is the
hunter and I’m the cook. She’s much stronger than me. Women are better
shots,” he says. “And they’re more careful,” adds Miriam. “They are less
driven by trophy hunting. They have less of a need to prove
themselves.”
Five years into their nomadic life in New Zealand, Miriam decided to
write a book about her experiences. The couple have since relocated to
Europe, where they’re spending the year walking to Turkey; part two of
their life’s dream of never returning to “civilisation”. So here we are
in Bulgaria – three hours west of Sofia,
upstream from a river where the couple can bathe, sitting around a
campfire in a wood (the photographer met up with them earlier in their
journey, in Bavaria). I’ve been invited for dinner and Peter is standing
over a cast iron pot containing a bubbling bean stew. There are foraged
wrinkly plums to start. It’s an exciting occasion for them: they
haven’t seen another human being for 11 days. It’s 5pm. What have they
been doing all day? “Nothing much. Waiting for you.” In the first few
months of their primitive life, Miriam thought she’d go mad with boredom
but she soon fell in sync with nature. Half of any given day is spent
collecting firewood. They sleep as long as it’s dark. They’ve never had
more energy.
It’s a stark contrast to when Miriam was still working as a special
needs teacher in Australia. Those were grim days: “I was always
stressed. And so bored. And depressed about thinking I’m going to do
this forever and ever.” She’s learned so much since she’s been out here
but one question remains unanswered: “Where are all the women?”
When they do bump into another person in the wild it’s usually a
hunter, and always a man. She thinks that perhaps women have lost their
connection with nature, “even more than men. And also,” she adds,
passionately, “why do women behave so weakly, physically? As in, ‘I
can’t lift that,’ ‘I can’t shit outside,’ ‘I can’t have my period in the
bush.’” She thinks it’s a shame women are missing out.
It seems Miriam is not the only woman to think that women are missing
out. Her book is coming out in Britain this month but is already
published in Holland, where it’s become a small sensation. “Women write
to me and say, ‘You inspired me,’” she tells me. “They’re amazed that
it’s possible to live this primitive life; but they’re afraid: ‘What’s
out there?’”
She says women worry about being eaten by wild animals or being
murdered by a mentally unstable predator, like they’ve seen in Nordic
noir. Interestingly, the women at her readings in Holland are usually
aged between 40 and 50; maybe they are drawn to Miriam’s story because
they see hers as the alternative life they could have led if only they’d
been bolder and conformed less. Younger women still have the big
decisions – and regrets – ahead of them. What do the women who write to
her tell her the book inspired them to do? “One woman said: ‘You
inspired me to get a divorce.’ If you want to be more content, sometimes
you have to change your life completely.”
I attach here the stucture we saw in the last class. I hope you assimilate the structure and are then able to produce more sentences to make sure you can use it properly.
The year 2017 is "very likely" to be
in the top three warmest years on record, according to provisional
figures from the World Meteorological Organization.
The WMO says it will likely be the hottest year in the absence of the El Niño phenomenon.
The scientists argue that the long-term trend of warming driven by human activities continues unabated.
They say many of the "extraordinary" weather events seen this year bear the hallmarks of climate change.
On
the opening day of this year's key UN climate talks, researchers from
the WMO have presented their annual State of the Global Climate report.
It
follows hot on the heels of their greenhouse gases study from last week
which found that concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere were the
highest on record.
While the new study only covers January to September, the WMO says
the average global temperature was 1.1C above the pre-industrial figure. This is getting dangerously close to the 1.5 degrees
threshold that many island states feel temperatures must be kept under
to ensure their survival.
The analysis suggests that 2017 is likely to come in 0.47C warmer than the 1981-2010 average.
This is slightly down on 2016 when the El Niño weather phenomenon saw temperatures that were 0.56C above the average.
According to the WMO, this year vies with 2015 to be the second or third warmest mark yet recorded.
"The past three years have all been in the top three years in terms
of temperature records. This is part of a long-term warming trend," said
WMO Secretary-General Petteri Taalas.
"We have witnessed
extraordinary weather, including temperatures topping 50C in Asia,
record-breaking hurricanes in rapid succession in the Caribbean and
Atlantic, (and) reaching as far as Ireland, devastating monsoon flooding
affecting many millions of people and a relentless drought in East
Africa.
"Many of these events - and detailed scientific studies
will determine exactly how many - bear the tell-tale sign of climate
change caused by increased greenhouse gas concentrations from human
activities," he said.
Scientists will have to do attribution studies to clearly link
specific events from 2017 to rising temperatures. But they believe the
fingerprints of climate change are to be seen in events such as tropical
cyclones, where the warmer seas can transfer more heat to the gathering
storms and increased sea levels can make flooding more damaging.
The
Accumulated Cyclone Energy Index, which measures the intensity and
duration of these events, showed its highest ever monthly values in
September this year.
It was also the first time that two Category 4 hurricanes made landfall in the same year in the US.
Hurricane
Irma was a Category 5 storm for the longest period on record. Rain
gauges in Nederland, Texas, recorded 1,539mm, the largest ever recorded
for a single event in the mainland US.
There were also significant flooding events with large loss of life
in Sierra Leone, in Nepal, India, Bangladesh and Peru among many others.
In contrast, droughts and heatwaves affected many parts of
Africa and South America. In Somalia, more than half of cropland was
impacted with herds reduced by 40-60%.
More than 11 million people are experiencing severe food insecurity in Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia.
"This
year saw a multitude of damaging weather extremes which is not uncommon
but many of these events were made more severe by the sustained warming
influence of increasing atmospheric greenhouse gas levels due to human
activities," said Richard Allan, professor of climate science at the
University of Reading, UK.
"An increased severity of weather extremes is expected in the decades
ahead as Earth continues to heat up and it is only with the substantive
cuts in greenhouse gas emissions required by the Paris climate
agreement that we can avert much more potent and widespread damage to
our societies and the ecosystems upon which they depend."
With UN
talks on climate change now underway here in Bonn, the report is likely
to reinforce a sense of urgency among many delegates.
"These
findings underline the rising risks to people, economies and the very
fabric of life on Earth if we fail to get on track with the aims and
ambitions of the Paris Agreement," said Patricia Espinosa, executive
secretary of UN Climate Change, which is hosting the Bonn conference.
By Matt McGrath, BBC News You can read the whole article here: BBC News
As an essential part of the Halloween celebrations, crows or ravens are everywhere. But what is the difference between these two similar birds? Click here to find out and listen to the different sounds they make:
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 upon the floor.
Eagerly I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow
From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore -
For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore -
Nameless here for evermore.
And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain
Thrilled me - filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before;
So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating
`'Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door -
Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; -
This it is, and nothing more,'
Presently my soul grew stronger; hesitating then no longer,
`Sir,' said I, `or Madam, truly your forgiveness I implore;
But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you' - here I opened wide the door; -
Darkness there, and nothing more.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;
But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, `Lenore!'
This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, `Lenore!'
Merely this and nothing more.
Back into the chamber turning, all my soul within me burning,
Soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before.
`Surely,' said I, `surely that is something at my window lattice;
Let me see then, what thereat is, and this mystery explore -
Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore; -
'Tis the wind and nothing more!'
Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately raven of the saintly days of yore.
Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he;
But, with mien of lord or lady, perched above my chamber door -
Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door -
Perched, and sat, and nothing more.
Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling,
By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore,
`Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou,' I said, `art sure no craven.
Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore -
Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'
Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly,
Though its answer little meaning - little relevancy bore;
For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being
Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door -
Bird or beast above the sculptured bust above his chamber door,
With such name as `Nevermore.'
But the raven, sitting lonely on the placid bust, spoke only,
That one word, as if his soul in that one word he did outpour.
Nothing further then he uttered - not a feather then he fluttered -
Till I scarcely more than muttered `Other friends have flown before -
On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before.'
Then the bird said, `Nevermore.'
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 master 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."'
But the raven still beguiling all my sad soul into smiling,
Straight I wheeled a cushioned seat in front of bird and bust and door;
Then, upon the velvet sinking, I betook myself to linking
Fancy unto fancy, thinking what this ominous bird of yore -
What this grim, ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of yore
Meant in croaking `Nevermore.'
This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing
To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom's core;
This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining
On the cushion's velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o'er,
But whose velvet violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o'er, She shall press, ah, nevermore!
Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer
Swung by Seraphim whose foot-falls tinkled on the tufted floor.
`Wretch,' I cried, `thy God hath lent thee - by these angels he has sent thee
Respite - respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!
Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'
`Prophet!' said I, `thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! -
Whether tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here ashore,
Desolate yet all undaunted, on this desert land enchanted -
On this home by horror haunted - tell me truly, I implore -
Is there - is there balm in Gilead? - tell me - tell me, I implore!'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'
`Prophet!' said I, `thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil!
By that Heaven that bends above us - by that God we both adore -
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore -
Clasp a rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels name Lenore?'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'
`Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend!' I shrieked upstarting -
`Get thee back into the tempest and the Night's Plutonian shore!
Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken!
Leave my loneliness unbroken! - quit the bust above my door!
Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!'
Quoth the raven, `Nevermore.'
And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting
On the pallid bust of Pallas just above my chamber door;
And his eyes have all the seeming of a demon's that is dreaming,
And the lamp-light o'er him streaming throws his shadow on the floor;
And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor
Shall be lifted - nevermore!
