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Yes Nightingale through all the summer time	A
We followed on from moon to golden moon	B
From where Salerno day dreams in the noon	B
And the far rose of P stum once did climb	A
All the white way beside the girdling blue	C
Through sun shrill vines and campanile chime	A
We listened from the old year to the new	C
Brown bird and where were you	C
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You that Ravello lured not throned on high	D
And filled with singing out of sun burned throats	E
Nor yet Minore of the flame sailed boats	E
Nor yet of all bird song should glorify	D
Assisi Little Portion of the blest	F
Assisi in the bosom of the sky	D
Where God's own singer thatched his sunward nest	F
That little heavenliest	F
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And north and north to where the hedge rows are	G
That beckon with white looks an endless way	H
Where through the fair wet silverness of May	H
A lamb shines out as sudden as a star	G
Among the cloudy sheep and green and pale	I
The may trees reach and glimmer near or far	G
And the red may trees wear a shining veil	I
And still no nightingale	I
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The one vain longing through all journeyings	E
The one in every hushed and hearkening spot	F
All the soft swarming dark where you were not	F
Still longed for Yes for sake of dreams and wings	E
And wonders that your own must ever make	J
To bower you close with all hearts' treasurings	E
And for that speech toward which all hearts do ache	J
Even for Music's sake	J
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But most his music whose belov egrave d name	K
Forever writ in water of bright tears	E
Wins to one grave side even the Roman years	E
That kindle there the hallowed April flame	K
Of comfort breathing violets By that shrine	L
Of Youth Love Death forevermore the same	K
Violets still When falls to leave no sign	L
The arch of Constantine	M
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Most for his sake we dreamed Tho' not as he	N
From that lone spirit brimmed with human woe	O
Your song once shook to surging overflow	O
How was it sovran dweller of the tree	N
His cry still throbbing in the flooded shell	P
Of silence with remembered melody	N
Could draw from you no answer to the spell	P
O Voice O Philomel	P
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Long time we wondered and we knew not why	D
Nor dream nor prayer of wayside gladness born	Q
Nor vineyards waiting nor reproachful thorn	Q
Nor yet the nested hill towns set so high	D
All the white way beside the girdling blue	P
Nor olives gray against a golden sky	D
Could serve to wake that rapturous voice of you	P
But the wise silence knew	P
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O Nightingale unheard Unheard alone	R
Throughout that woven music of the days	E
From the faint sea rim to the market place	E
And ring of hammers on cathedral stone	R
So be it better so that there should fail	P
For sun filled ones one bless egrave d thing unknown	R
To them be hid forever and all hail	P
Sing never Nightingale	P
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Sing for the others Sing to some pale cheek	S
Against the window like a starving flower	T
Loose with your singing one poor pilgrim hour	T
Of journey with some Heart's Desire to seek	S
Loose with your singing captives such as these	E
In misery and iron hearts too meek	S
For voyage voyage over dreamful seas	E
To lost Hesperides	E
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Sing not for free men Ah but sing for whom	U
The walls shut in and even as eyes that fade	F
The windows take no heed of light nor shade	F
The leaves are lost in mutterings of the loom	U
Sing near So in that golden overflowing	V
They may forget their wasted human bloom	U
Pay the devouring days their all unknowing	V
Reck not of life's bright going	V
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Sing not for lovers side by side that hark	W
Nor unto parted lovers save they be	N
Parted indeed by more than makes the Sea	N
Where never hope shall meet like mounting lark	W
Far Joy's uprising and no memories	E
Abide to star the music haunted dark	W
To them that sit in darkness such as these	E
Pour down pour down heart's ease	E
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Not in Kings' gardens No but where there haunt	F
The world's forgotten both of men and birds	E
The alleys of no hope and of no words	E
The hidings where men reap not though they plant	F
But toil and thirst so dying and so born	Q
And toil and thirst to gather to their want	F
From the lean waste beyond the daylight's scorn	Q
To gather grapes of thorn	Q
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And for those two your pilgrims without tears	E
Who prayed a largess where there was no dearth	X
Forgive it to their human happy ears	E
Forgive it them brown music of the Earth	X
Unknowing though the wiser silence knew	P
Forgive it to the music of the spheres	E
That while they walked together so the Two	P
Together heard not you	P

Josephine Preston Peabody

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