“As night is withdrawn
From these sweet-springing meads and bursting boughs of May,
Dream, while the innumerable choir of day
Welcome the dawn.”

—  Robert Seymour Bridges

Nightingales http://www.poetry-online.org/bridges_nightingales.htm, st. 3. <br class="br">Poetry

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