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Nature-notes and impressions in prose and verse

Cawein, Madison Julius (1865-1914)

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[Hark how the honey-throated thrush]

Hark how the honey-throated thrush
With notes of limpid harmony
Scatters the noonday's liquid hush,
Taking the woods with witchery.
Hid in the foliage deeps of green
He flutes his wildwood notes serene,
Like some tree-spirit, lost, unseen.
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