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PHAETHON: THE BEGINNING OF DAY, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now the sweet-voiced nightingale
Last Line: Bellying white to fore-stay go.
Subject(s): Dawn; Sunrise


NOW the sweet-voiced nightingale
In the woods takes up her tale,
Itys, Itys her refrain,
Waking grief to light again.
Shepherds on the hilly weald
Pipe their reeds to flocks afield;
Yellow foals in couples pass,
Roused from stall to eat their grass;
And the huntsman sets to work
Quartering where the wild beasts lurk.
Swans about the Ocean springs
Cry, and sweet their music rings;
Boats cast off and take the seas
Driven by oar and spanking breeze;
Sails, run up to catch the blow,
Bellying white to fore-stay go.





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