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" That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture! "
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The Living Age, Volume 194

1892 - 848 pages
...the thrush in the tree above seems likely to go sweetly mad in the energy of its melodious chanting. The wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest...never could recapture The first fine careless rapture. Here too, however, the gentle words, " For charity's sake, signore," somehow soon got whispered through...
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The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 8

American literature - 1846 - 608 pages
...elm-treo bole are in tiny leaf. While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now ! And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows — Hark ! where my blossom'd pear-tree in th*" hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dew-drops,...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 8

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 pages
...elm-treo bob; are in tiny leaf. While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now ! And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows — Hark ! where my blossom'd pear-tree in thehedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dew-drops,...
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Poems: A blot in the 'scutcheon

Robert Browning - 1850 - 436 pages
...elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now ! And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat...clover Blossoms and dewdrops — at the bent spray's edge — That 's the wise thrush ; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could...
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Poets of England and America: Being Selections from the Best Authors of Both ...

Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...elm-tree hole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now ! And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat...clover Blossoms and dewdrops — at the bent spray's edge — That 's the wise thrush ; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could...
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Select specimens of English poetry

Edward Hughes - 1856 - 474 pages
...April, when May follows, And the whitethroat huilds, and all the swallows — Hark ! where my hlossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops — at the hent spray's edge— That's the wise thrush ; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think...
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The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 62

American essays - 1888 - 928 pages
...with me. " Yes, I will be brave and tell him," I resolved. But just then he began to quote : — " ' Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans...clover Blossoms and dew-drops at the bent spray's " I cannot tell him now," I thought. He had thrown himself on the grass by my side, and was lazily...
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The Cornhill Magazine

William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1909 - 872 pages
...Possibly — but this is subsequent imagining — the lines were from ' Home Thoughts from Abroad ' : Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans...field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops — ' This,' said his hostess, in introducing her, ' is the sender of the pear-blossom.' ' I stripped...
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The Cornhill Magazine, Volume 5

William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1862 - 804 pages
...the gem of the piece," Lancelot added, — " the tribute to the mavis. 1 That's the wise thrash— he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think...never could recapture The first fine careless rapture ! ' But Browning," he went on, " is not an English poet. He has lived in Italy until he has forgotten...
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A book of English poetry; ed. by T. Shorter

Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...the elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf; While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England now ! And after April, when May follows, And the whitethroat builds, and all the swallows — Hark ! where my blossom'd pear-tree in the hedge Leaves to the field and scatters on the clover Blossoms and dewdrops...
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