The Watcher
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The term “raven” originally referred to the common raven, the type species of the genus Corvus, which has a larger distribution than any other species of Corvus, ranging over much of the Northern Hemisphere.
Collective nouns for a group of ravens (or at least the common raven) include “unkindness”, “treachery”,[4] and “conspiracy”.[5] In practice, most people use the more generic “flock”.
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—
Edgar Allen Poe