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. Ailes d'alouette. aks! As at the organs thunderingBreaks the lutes responsive string! Ah. sadder heart, where Love has o-rownStealthily, his name unknowai!As at some wandering noiseless airThe wind-harp wakens to despair. 71 AN ENGLISH EDEN. PTOSES drop their petals all around^ ^ In that enchanted ground,And all the air is murmurous with sound From the white-tumbling weir;So that all sounds or voices heard anearDo half unreal appear. As one half-waking from a dreamless sleep Is fain his thought to keepThus floating ever twixt the nights black deep And the blank glare of day:So in that Eden p
. Ailes d'alouette. aks! As at the organs thunderingBreaks the lutes responsive string! Ah. sadder heart, where Love has o-rownStealthily, his name unknowai!As at some wandering noiseless airThe wind-harp wakens to despair. 71 AN ENGLISH EDEN. PTOSES drop their petals all around^ ^ In that enchanted ground,And all the air is murmurous with sound From the white-tumbling weir;So that all sounds or voices heard anearDo half unreal appear. As one half-waking from a dreamless sleep Is fain his thought to keepThus floating ever twixt the nights black deep And the blank glare of day:So in that Eden pauses life midway Twixt dawning and noonday. 72 AUTUMN SINGERS. II 7HEN woods are gold and hedges gay With jewelled Autumns brief array,And diamonds sprinkle every spray, The robin singsHis soft melodious well-a-dayFor dying things. Yet often, when a riotous night Has ruined half the woods delight, There breaks a spring-day warm and bright; And the thrush sings,As if his April were in sight. Of quickening things. 73. H3^ 83 On© ^^•n^
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