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First Line: Sweet in the rushes
Last Line: The life of the lake.
Subject(s): Birds; Lakes; Nightingales; Water; Pools; Ponds


SWEET in the rushes
The reed-singers make
A music that hushes
The life of the lake;
The leaves are dumb,
And the tides are still,
And no calls come
From the flocks on the hill.

Forgotten now
Are nightingales,
And on his bough
The linnet fails, --
Midway the mere
My mirrored boat
Shall rest and hear
A slenderer note.

Though, heart, you measure
But one proud rhyme,
You build a treasure
Confounding time --
Sweet in the rushes
The reed-singers make
A music that hushes
The life of the lake.





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