"And on the smalle greene twistis sat The little sweet nightingale, and sung So loud and clear the hymnis consecrat Of lovis use, now soft, now loud among, That all the gardens and the wallis rung Right of their song.

"And on the smalle greene twistis sat The little sweet nightingale, and sung So loud and clear the hymnis consecrat Of lovis use, now soft, now loud among, That all the gardens and the wallis rung Right of their song.

But to her heart, her heart was voluble, Paining with eloquence her balmy side; As though a tongueless nightingale should swell Her heart in vain, and die, heart-stifled, in her dell.

Thy spirit's sister, the lorn nightingale, Mourns not her mate with such melodious pain; Not so the eagle, who like thee could scale Heaven, and could nourish in the sun's domain

In the merry month of May O towards the close of day Methought I heard at last O the gentle nightingale, The lady and the mistress of all musick; She sits down ever in the dale Singing with her notès smale And quavering them wonderfully thick.

"And O, poor hapless nightingale, thought I, How sweet thou singst, how near the deadly snare!"Id.

" At twenty-one the girl's heart flutters with expectancy: "I leaned out of window, I smelt the white clover, Dark, dark was the garden, I saw not the gate; Now, if there be footsteps, he comes, my one lover; Hush nightingale, hush!

So that in those sweet summer evenings of 1700, over the laced and brocaded couples promenading in Spring Garden, as over good Sir Roger twelve years later, the indulgent nightingale still poured her notes.

We are reminded of the fairy tale of the Emperor of China and the mechanical nightingale.

And when the new contracts come in, the mercenary nightingales again take wing, indifferently, they care not whither.

In vain along the vale The linnet, and the blackbird, The mournful nightingale; "The Miller hears and sees not, Thinking of his son; His toppling wheel is silent; His grinding done.

it must be some one elsethere were other harmonious sternutators beside him, he could not be the only nasal nightingale in the three kingdoms.

His statue in an aureole fills the shrine, The reckless nightingale, the roaming fawn, Share the broad blessing of his lifted hands, Under the canopy, above the lawn.

"Nor then the solemn nightingale ceas'd warbling.

He was listening to "the little sweetë nightingale," when suddenly casting down his eyes he saw a lady walking in the garden, and at once his "heart became her thrall."

"You are serenaded by some unknown nightingale, and I have flowers tossed up to me in the charming old style.

Silence accompanied: for beast and bird, They to their grassy couch, these to their nests, Were slunkall but the wakeful nightingale: She, all night long, her am'rous descant sung.

And now that thou art lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but these he cannot take.

Lend me your song, ye nightingales!

Here, amid the quiet of orchardswhite in spring with blossom, the haunt of countless nightingales, heavy with fruit in autumn, at all times the home of a luxuriant vegetationhistory has surged to and fro, like the tides drawn hither and thither, rising and falling according to the dictates of a far-off planet.

In his own earnest nightingale.

The erudite nightingale threw wide the throttle of his throat and taught some nestling kin the sweetness of his lore.