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WASTED HOURS by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES

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First Line: HOW MANY BUDS IN THIS WARM LIGHT
Last Line: THE NIGHTINGALE AND MOON.
Subject(s): BIRDS; NIGHTINGALES; TIME;
HOW many buds in this warm light
Have burst out laughing into leaves!
And shall a day like this be gone
Before I seek the wood that holds
The richest music known?

Too many times have nightingales
Wasted their passion on my sleep,
And brought repentance soon;
But this one night I'll seek the woods,
The Nightingale and Moon.



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