Read the second stanza of the poem "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe. Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; —vainly I had sought to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow—sorrow for the lost Lenore— For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore— Nameless here for evermore. Which line from the stanza best supports the idea that the speaker was reading at the beginning of the poem?

"Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,"

"As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door."

"Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore—"

"While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping,"