Nightingale and Cuckoo
Alfred Austin
1835 to 1913
Track 1
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Yet wherefore, nightingale! break off thy strain,
Nor yet have learned that both of them are vain!
While yet the cuckoo doth his call repeat?
Not so with me. To sweet woe did I cling
Until we know not which is the more sweet,
Cuckoo and nightingale alike have fled;
And so found solace. Now, alas! the sting!
Neither for joy nor sorrow do I sing,
Long after echoing happiness was dead,
Are emblems of the rapture and the pain
That you should come together; for ye twain
Yes, nightingale and cuckoo! it was meet
That in the April of our life compete,
And autumn silence gathers in their stead.
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