HOL Ravenclaw

[i][u]Solution[/u][/i]:
“[b][color=#0080BF]The flickering flame plays a treacherous game (full of shadows and wraiths in the dark), and my spirits grow damp as the light of the lamp seems to laugh on a whim and a lark.[/color][/b]”

[i][u]Solved by[/u][/i]:
[b][color=#434343]Prof. Felicia Hartwick[/color][/b]
[b][color=#004000]Prof. Will Lestrange[/color][/b]
[b][color=#434343]Kalgri Sicaria[/color][/b]
[b][color=#434343]Harry Walles[/color][/b]
[b][color=#004000]Louis Walles[/color][/b]

[b][i][u]Lamp Light[/u][/i][/b]

The night was dark,
foreboding,
and sad.
I walked along the dirt road

my eyes so used to the darkness ahead
however the trees,
now obscured the moonlight,
erasing all trace of comfort that I held.

But what is that!
Ahead in the distance,
a small sliver of light shining on the path,
hastening towards it,
I find it to be a lamp.

a Lamp Light it was
shining it's light upon the pavement,
almost as if it was put there
for travelers like me.

[i][b] This I sat engaged in guessing, but no syllable expressing
To the fowl whose fiery eyes now burned into my bosom’s core;
This and more I sat divining, with my head at ease reclining
On the cushion’s velvet lining that the lamp-light gloated o’er,
But whose velvet-violet lining with the lamp-light gloating o’er,
She shall press, ah, nevermore![/b][/i]

[i][u][b]Task[/b][/u][/i]:
What’s that written on a piece of parchment nearby? Looks like it’s in code! Solve the following [b][i]Cryptogram[/i][/b] puzzle and [url=http://forum.roosted.org/ucp.php?i=pm&mode=compose&u=13][color=#0080BF][b]Send Me Your Solution[/b][/color][/url] through a private message.

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Alternatively you may contribute an original [b][i]Poem[/i][/b] in [b]75 words[/b] or more titled “[i]Lamp-Light[/i]” or share a piece of [b][i]Wisdom[/i][/b] you’ve learned after a set of scary and/or challenging circumstances.

This task is worth [u]15 beans[/u], with an additional [u]15 bonus[/u] beans for completing all Week Three tasks by end of activity. [b][i]Deadline is 11:59pm ([url=http://hol.org.uk/calendar][color=#0080BF]HOL time[/color][/url]) on Halloween, Monday October 31st.[/b][/i]