“He would declare and could himself believe
That the birds there in all the garden round
From having heard the daylong voice of Eve
Had added to their own an oversound,
Her tone of meaning but without the words.”

—  Robert Frost

"Never Again Would Birds’ Song Be the Same
1940s

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