<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529901" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Old Adam, the Carrion Crow</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Old Adam, the carrion crow,<br> The old crow of Cairo;<br> He sat in the shower, and let it flow<br> Under his tail and over his crest;<br> And through every feather<br> Leak'd the wet weather;<br> And the bough swung under his nest;<br> For his beak it was heavy with marrow.<br> Is that the wind dying? O no;<br> It's only two devils, that blow,<br> Through a murderer's bones, to and fro,<br> In the ghosts' moonshine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"> Ho! Eve, my grey carrion wife,<br> When we have supped on king's marrow,<br> Where shall we drink and make merry our life?<br> Our nest it is queen Cleopatra's skull,<br> 'Tis cloven and crack'd,<br> And batter'd and hack'd,<br> But with tears of blue eyes it is full:<br> Let us drink then, my raven of Cairo!<br> Is that the wind dying? O no;<br> It's only two devils, that blow<br> Through a murderer's bones, to and fro,<br> In the ghosts' moonshine.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Thomas+Lovell+Beddoes">Thomas Lovell Beddoes</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=529901" data-title="Old Adam, the Carrion Crow de Thomas Lovell Beddoes" data-description="Old Adam, the carrion crow, The old crow of Cairo; He sat in the shower, and let it flow Under his tail and over his crest; And through every feather Leak'd the wet weather; And the bough swung under his nest; For his beak it was heavy with..."></div> </div> </div>

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