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Poe, E.
Near a Raven
Midnights so dreary, tired and weary.
Silently pondering volumes extolling all by-now obsolete lore.
During my
rather long nap - the weirdest tap!
An ominous vibrating sound
disturbing my chamber's antedoor.
"This", I whispered quietly, "I
ignore".
Perfectly, the intellect remembers: the ghostly
fires, a glittering ember.
Inflamed by lightning's outbursts, windows
cast penumbras upon this floor.
Sorrowful, as one mistreated, unhappy
thoughts I heeded:
That inimitable lesson in elegance - Lenore -
Is delighting, exciting...nevermore.
Ominously, curtains parted (my serenity
outsmarted),
And fear overcame my being - the fear of "forevermore".
Fearful foreboding abided, selfish sentiment confided,
As I said,
"Methinks mysterious traveler knocks afore.
A man is visiting, of
age threescore."
Taking little time, briskly addressing something:
"Sir," (robustly)
"Tell what source originates clamorous noise afore?
Disturbing sleep unkindly, is it you a-tapping, so slyly?
Why, devil
incarnate!--" Here completely unveiled I my antedoor--
Just
darkness, I ascertained - nothing more.
While surrounded by darkness then, I persevered to
clearly comprehend.
I perceived the weirdest dream...of everlasting
"nevermores".
Quite, quite, quick nocturnal doubts fled - such relief! - as
my intellect said,
(Desiring, imagining still) that perchance the
apparition was uttering a whispered "Lenore".
This only, as
evermore.
Silently, I reinforced, remaining anxious, quite
scared, afraid,
While intrusive tap did then come thrice - O, so
stronger than sounded afore.
"Surely" (said silently) "it was the banging,
clanging window lattice."
Glancing out, I quaked, upset by horrors
hereinbefore,
Perceiving: a "nevermore".
Completely disturbed, I said, "Utter, please, what
prevails ahead.
Repose, relief, cessation, or but more dreary
'nevermores'?"
The bird intruded thence - O, irritation ever since! -
Then sat on Pallas' pallid bust, watching me (I sat not, therefore),
And stated "nevermores".
Bemused by raven's dissonance, my soul exclaimed,
"I seek intelligence;
Explain thy purpose, or soon cease intoning
forlorn 'nevermores'!"
"Nevermores", winged corvus proclaimed - thusly was a
raven named?
Actually maintain a surname, upon Pluvious seashore?
I heard an oppressive "nevermore".
My sentiments extremely pained, to perceive an
utterance so plain,
Most interested, mystified, a meaning I hoped for.
"Surely," said the raven's watcher, "separate discourse is wiser.
Therefore, liberation I'll obtain, retreating heretofore -
Eliminating all the 'nevermores' ".
Still, the detestable raven just remained,
unmoving, on sculptured bust.
Always saying "never" (by a red chamber's
door).
A poor, tender heartache maven - a sorrowful bird - a raven!
O, I wished thoroughly, forthwith, that he'd fly heretofore.
Still
sitting, he recited "nevermores".
The raven's dirge induced alarm - "nevermore" quite
wearisome.
I meditated: "Might its utterances summarize of a calamity
before?"
O, a sadness was manifest - a sorrowful cry of unrest;
"O,"
I thought sincerely, "it's a melancholy great - furthermore,
Removing doubt, this explains 'nevermores' ".
Seizing just that moment to sit - closely,
carefully, advancing beside it,
Sinking down, intrigued, where velvet
cushion lay afore.
A creature, midnight-black, watched there - it studied my
soul, unawares.
Wherefore, explanations my insight entreated for.
Silently, I pondered the "nevermores".
"Disentangle, nefarious bird! Disengage - I am
disturbed!"
Intently its eye burned, raising the cry within my core.
"That delectable Lenore - whose velvet pillow this was, heretofore,
Departed thence, unsettling my consciousness therefore.
She's
returning - that maiden - aye, nevermore."
Since, to me, that thought was madness, I renounced
continuing sadness.
Continuing on, I soundly, adamantly forswore:
"Wretch," (addressing blackbird only) "fly swiftly - emancipate me!"
"Respite, respite, detestable raven - and discharge me, I implore!"
A ghostly answer of: "nevermore".
" 'Tis a prophet? Wraith? Strange devil? Or the
ultimate evil?"
"Answer, tempter-sent creature!", I inquired, like
before.
"Forlorn, though firmly undaunted, with 'nevermores' quite
indoctrinated,
Is everything depressing, generating great sorrow
evermore?
I am subdued!", I then swore.
In answer, the raven turned - relentless distress
it spurned.
"Comfort, surcease, quiet, silence!" - pleaded I for.
"Will my (abusive raven!) sorrows persist unabated?
Nevermore Lenore
respondeth?", adamantly I encored.
The appeal was ignored.
"O, satanic inferno's denizen -- go!", I said
boldly, standing then.
"Take henceforth loathsome "nevermores" - O, to
an ugly Plutonian shore!
Let nary one expression, O bird, remain still here,
replacing mirth.
Promptly leave and retreat!", I resolutely swore.
Blackbird's riposte: "nevermore".
So he sitteth, observing always, perching ominously
on these doorways.
Squatting on the stony bust so untroubled, O
therefore.
Suffering stark raven's conversings, so I am condemned,
subserving,
To a nightmare cursed, containing miseries galore.
Thus henceforth, I'll rise (from a darkness, a grave) -- nevermore!
-- Original: E. Poe
-- Redone by measuring circles.