Songs, Ballads, and Other Poems by the late Thomas Haynes Bayly; Edited by his Widow. With A Memoir of the Author. In Two Volumes |
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SAY—WHERE IS THE NIGHTINGALE?
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Say, where is the nightingale I gave you in the spring?Sweetly in unclouded nights the captive used to sing;
Oh! it had the wildest notes that ever yet were heard;
Tell me not you've changed it for yon green and scarlet bird!
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Better is a gentle voice than a painted cheek;I will have the wood notes wild, you the golden beak;
Take discordant beauty hence, I'm for plainer sweets,
I will have the nightingale's, you the paroquet's.
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