...humanizing and devotional, that although we are fain to confess with him, that 'tis indeed " the merry Nightingale, That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates,...night, Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chaunt, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music." We nevertheless feel, that both in the...

...expression of relir/ious sympathy with the beaut]/ in which fit night it tteeped. Not silent long. "Tis the Nightingale ' That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates ' With fast thick warble his delicious notes ; far am) near, ' In wood avid thicket, over the wide grove, 1 They answer and provoke each other's...

...lore : we may not thus profane Nature's sweet voices, atway full of love And loyance 1 Tis the merrg nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates,...him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen hic lull suul Of all its music! Ro. gably, that I was so afflicted with the stone, that I could sleep...

...conceit. " We may not thus profane Nature's sweet voices, always full oflovc And joyance ! 'tis the merry nightingale, That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates...too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburtheu his full sou! * Of all its music. Far and near, In wood and thicket, over the wide grove...

...pity-pleading strains. My friend, and my friend's sister! we have learnt 254 255 And joyance ! "Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds , and hurries , and precipitates,...too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and dishurthen his full Soul Of all its music! and I know a grove Of large extent, hard by a castle huge,...

...: we may not thus profane Nature's sweet voices, always full of love And joyance !— Tis the MERRY nightingale '• That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates,...night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love chant, and disbnrthen his full soul Of all its music." After the nightingale, there comes the...

...Bird !* A melancholy Bird? oh, idle thought! In Nature there is nothing melancholy. 'Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates...notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would he too short for him to utter forth His love-chaunt, and disburden his full soul Of all its music !...

...crowds, and homes, and precipitates, With fast, thick warble, hi; delicious notes. As he were fearfnl that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love chant, and digbnrthen his full soul Of all its music." After the nightingale, there comes the...

...sweet association ! — are very closely akin to our own : — " List to the 'merry nightingale,' Who crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble, his delicious notes; Fearful, lest that an April night Should bo too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, — and...

...his re-christening of the bird by that epithet which Chaucer had before given it : " 'Tis tlie merry nightingale, That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates,...love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music ! " The fable of the nightingale's origin would, of course, in classical times, give the character...