В оригиналният вариант на стиха, гарвана не казва "Nevermore" накрая. Оригинала подхожда на темата:
`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, `...HAPPEH BIRTHDAY!'