Nightingale and Cuckoo
Alfred Austin
1835 to 1913
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Reconstruct the poem by dragging each line into its correct position. Your goal is to reassemble the original poem as accurately as possible. As you move the lines, you'll see whether your arrangement is correct, helping you explore the poem's flow and meaning. You can also print out the jumbled poem to cut up and reassemble in the classroom. Either way, take your time, enjoy the process, and discover how the poet's words come together to create something truly beautiful.
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Are emblems of the rapture and the pain
Nor yet have learned that both of them are vain!
That in the April of our life compete,
Neither for joy nor sorrow do I sing,
And so found solace. Now, alas! the sting!
Yes, nightingale and cuckoo! it was meet
That you should come together; for ye twain
Cuckoo and nightingale alike have fled;
Long after echoing happiness was dead,
Until we know not which is the more sweet,
And autumn silence gathers in their stead.
Not so with me. To sweet woe did I cling
Yet wherefore, nightingale! break off thy strain,
While yet the cuckoo doth his call repeat?