...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...

...of poetry ; and his re-christening of the bird by that epithet which Chaucer had before given it : " 'Tis the merry nightingale, That crowds, and hurries,...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...

...différent lore : we may not thus profane Nature's sweet voices, always full of love And joyance ! 'Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries,...notes, - As he were fearful that an April night Would bo too short for him to utter forth • His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music...

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...echoes the conceit. " We may not thus profane Nature's sweet voices, always full of love And joyanoe ! 'tis the merry nightingale, That crowds, and hurries,...notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would bo too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music....

...thou affordest bad men such music on earth?" " Nature's sweet voices, always full of love And joyance! 'Tis the merry nightingale That crowds, and hurries,...delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night J: *"• Would be too short for him to utter forth V :"*" His love-chaunt, and disburden his full soul"...

...different lore : we may not thus profane Nature's sweet voices, always full of love And joynnce! Tie the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and...warble his delicious notes. As he were fearful that on April night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chant, and disburlhen his full soul...

...different lore ; we may not thus profane Nature's sweet voices, always full of love And joyance! 'T is the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries, and precipitates With fast thick warble bis delicious notes, As he were fearful that an April night Would be too short for him to utter forth...

...description which beyond all others perhaps bears surest testimony to familiarity with it, 14 Coleridge's : Tis the merry nightingale That crowds, and hurries,...love-chant, and disburthen his full soul Of all its music 1 He, it is clear, must have heard the song in all its marvellous variety — listened night after...

...A different lore : we may not thus profane Nature's sweet voices, always full of love And joyance ! "Tis the merry Nightingale That crowds, and hurries,...night Would be too short for him to utter forth His love-chaunt, and disburden his full soul Of all its music ! And I know a grove Of large extent, hard...