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A COLONY OF NIGHTINGALES. - ZaunköniG - 01.01.2011 A COLONY OF NIGHTINGALES. I placed the mute eggs of the Nightingale In the warm nest, beneath a brooding thrush ; And waited long, to catch the earliest gush Of the new wood-notes, in our northern vale ; And, as with eye and ear I push'd my search, Their sudden music came as sweet to me, As the first organ-tone to Holy Church, Fresh from the Angel and St. Cecily ; And, year by year, the warblers still return From the far south, and bring us back their song, Chanting their joy our summer groves among, A tune the merle and goldfinch cannot learn ; While the poor thrush, that hatch'd them, listens near. Nor knows the rival choir she settled here ! |