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STANZAS.
[The bird of midnight swell'd her throat]
Where more is meant than meets the ear.
Milton.
Milton.
The bird of midnight swell'd her throat,
The virgins listen'd round
To Sorrow's deeply-warbled note,
To sweet but solemn sound:
The virgins listen'd round
To Sorrow's deeply-warbled note,
To sweet but solemn sound:
When soon the Lark ascending high,
In sun-beams idly play'd;
As soon to greet him, see, they fly—
One pensive virgin stay'd.
In sun-beams idly play'd;
As soon to greet him, see, they fly—
One pensive virgin stay'd.
She stay'd to hear the mourner sing;
The rest, to Nature true,
The flutter of the gayer wing
The vacant song pursue.
The rest, to Nature true,
The flutter of the gayer wing
The vacant song pursue.
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