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NIGHT AND MORNING SONGS: 14. RING-DOVE SONG by GORDON BOTTOMLEY

First Line: SOFTLY I SING YOU, SWEET
Last Line: SWEET.
Subject(s): DOVES;

SOFTLY I sing you, sweet,
Songs of the swaying tops,
Darkly green of the fir-trees,
Airily light of the beeches.
Here in the twittering frondage
Sweetly the scent of larch-bloom
Over me sweeps in a tide,
Breaks on this emerald shore.
Softly the branches wave,
Soft as I sing to you,
Sweet.



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