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RECIPROCITY, by                    
First Line: With the may blossoms, cheery and bold
Last Line: "nothing sweeter than silence,"" sang he."
Subject(s): Music & Musicians; Singing & Singers; Songs


WITH the May blossoms, cheery and bold,
Came the oriole's song to his mate;
And he sang to her early and late
The one theme that can never grow old;
While after-notes too eager to wait,
All regardless of measure and date,
Were at any odd season outrolled,
When she thought his whole story was told.

Serene in her golden-hued gown sat she,
With no sign of assent or demur
To the rhapsodies showered upon her
By the flamelet aloft in the tree.
That her love was awake and astir
With his jubilant music and whir,
She could trust such a wooer to see.
"Nothing sweeter than silence," sang he.





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