"Have ye seen the ethereal blue Gently shedding silvery dew, Spangling o’er the silent green, While the nightingale, unseen, To the moon and stars, full bright, Lonesome chants the hymn of night?"
— Nightingales

January 1, 1970

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Ambrose Philips, "The Happy Swain", Stanza 2. The Sports of the Muses; or, A Minute's Mirth for any Hour of the Day, vol. 1 (London: M. Cooper, 1752) pp. 15-16