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The Poet And The Bird

The Poet And The Bird

Makes fitter music to our ears than any song of thine!
Whose highest harmony includes the lowest under sun.
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While we are thinking earthly things, thou singest of divine.
Now, wherefore, O thou nightingale, is all t九九藏書hy sweetness done?
I cannot sing my earthly things, the heavenly poet wanting,
Said a people to a poet--- Go out from among us straread.99csw•comightway!
And, when I last came by the place, I swear the music left there
The poet went out weeping---the nightingale ceased chantingread.99csw.com;
The poet went out weeping,---and died abroad, bereft there---
Was only of the poets song, and not the nightingales.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning九_九_藏_書
The bird flew to his grave and died, amid a thousand wails:---
Theres a little fair brown nightingale, who, sitting in the gateways