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THE SONGSTERS by WILLIAM WATSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: SING, NIGHTINGALE! THERE STILL BE THOSE WHO TAKE
Last Line: STILL TOLERATED BIRD!
Subject(s): BIRDS; NIGHTINGALES;

SING, Nightingale! There still be those who take
Thy music to be sweet.
Chant thine old chant -- till the new fashions make
All melody obsolete.

I cannot doubt that soon the corncrake's note
Shall be to thine preferred!
What then? Sing on, -- with thy still golden throat,
Still tolerated bird!



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