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First Line: Go, solitary wood, and henceforth be
Last Line: Shall flock about thee, and keep time with kisses.
Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales


Go, solitary wood, and henceforth be
Acquainted with no other harmony
Than the pies' chattering, or the shrieking note
Of boding owls and fatal raven's throat.
Thy sweetest chanter's dead, that warbled forth
Lays that might tempests calm, and still the north,
And call down angels from their glorious sphere
To hear her songs, and learn new anthems there.
That soul is fled, and to Elysium gone;
Thou a poor desert left. Go, then, and run;
Beg there to stand a grove, and if she please
To sing again beneath thy shadowy trees,
The souls of happy lovers crown'd with blisses
Shall flock about thee, and keep time with kisses.





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