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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
SONNET, by CORA RANDALL FABBRI
First Line: A poet wrote a song - a tender lay
Last Line: She sang it through—it was the nightingale!
Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales
First Line: A poet wrote a song - a tender lay
Last Line: She sang it through—it was the nightingale!
Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales
A POET wrote a song—a tender lay—
Of Life that dies, and Love that ne'er is dead.
"Life is the setting, Love the jewel," he said;
And then he tossed it carelessly away.
A south wind passing, heard it softly say:
"O save me! save me from this cold, hard bed!"
And caught it up, and soaring with it, fled
Up, up into the cloudlets dim and gray,
Then down again, and laid it on a tree.
A little, plain, brown bird came flying by,
Sighing: "Ah, Fate has been most harsh to me,
I cannot charm the ear or please the eye!"
She found the song, and in the moonlight pale
She sang it through—it was the nightingale!
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