It was with some alarm that I

Found myself perched in a tree

High up in the darkening sky

How I got there you wouldn’t believe me

I whispered to the resting raven

I was feeling more than a bit craven

He didn’t believe me even for a minute

It was his tree and I?  I was in it

He wanted to know what on earth for

And did not care to be quoted forevermore

So I told him to blame Edgar Alan Poe

And he, he told me straight away where to go…