THE NIGHTINGALE...
tINGALE;A CONVERSAtIONAL POEM, RIttEN IN APRIL, 1798.
No cloud, no relique of the sunken day
Distinguis, no long thin slip
Of sullen Ligrembling hues.
Come, on this old mossy Bridge!
You see tream beneath,
But ?oly
Oer its soft bed of verdure. All is still,
A balmy nigars be dim,
Yet let us the vernal showers
t gladden th, and we shall ?nd
A pleasure in tars.
And ingale begins its song,
quot;Most musical, most melanc;[1] Bird!
A melanc!
In nature thing melancholy.
--But some nig was piercd
ithe remembrance of a grievous wrong,
Or sloemper or neglected love,
(And so, poor retch himself
And made all gentle sounds tell back tale
Of his own sorrows) he and such as he
First namd tes a melancrain;
And many a poet ec,
Poet, whe rhyme
ter far retchd his limbs
Beside a brook in mossy forest-dell
By sun or moonligo the in?uxes
Of sing elements
Surrendering , of his song
And of ful! so his fame
Sures immortality,
A venerable thing! and so his song
Sure lovelier, and itself
Be lovd, like nature!--But t be so;
And yout poetical
wilighe spring
In ball-rooms and tres, till
Full of meek sympat heir sighs
Oer Py-pleading strains.
My Friend, and my Friends Sister! we
A different lore: thus profane