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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 Church Quarterly Review, Volume 42

Arthur Cayley Headlam - Theology - 1896 - 568 pages
...Austin's ' Defence of English Spring ; ' ' more poetic sense of a bird's song in the well-known lines ' Hark, where my blossomed pear-tree in the hedge Leans...clover Blossoms and dew-drops — 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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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 119

England - 1876 - 806 pages
...instruction of the good men who seem now trembling on the verge of as great a mischief as ' That's the wise thrush ; he sings each song twice over, Lest...never could recapture The first fine careless rapture ! " — BROWNIJTO. that wrought by the Free Church movement in Scotland. The whole controversy seeirs...
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Mortimer Collins, His Letters and Friendships, with Some Account ..., Volume 2

Mortimer Collins, Mrs. Mortimer Collins - 1877 - 308 pages
...mavis and merle are singing ! " How true, again, that Shakespeare-touch of Browning's :— "That's the wise thrush, he sings each song twice 'over, Lest...never could recapture, The first fine careless rapture ! " The thrush sang in May, according to the poet's lovely verse; but this year the birds began long...
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Mortimer Collins, His Letters and Friendships, with Some Account ..., Volume 2

Mortimer Collins, Mrs. Mortimer Collins - 1877 - 276 pages
...mavis and merle are singing ! " How true, again, that Shakespeare-touch of Browning's : — " That's the wise thrush, he sings each song twice over, Lest...never could recapture, The first fine careless rapture ! " The thrush sang in May, according to the poet's lovely verse ; but this year the birds began long...
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The Poetical Works of Robert Browning ...

Robert Browning - 1879 - 324 pages
...elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now !' iL 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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The Children's Garland from the Best Poets: Selected and Arranged by ...

Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore - Children's poetry, English - 1879 - 376 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 white-throat...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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A Year in a Lancashire Garden

Henry Arthur Bright - Formal gardens - 1879 - 142 pages
...better said than these lines of Browning's about a thrush : — " Hark ! where my blossomed Pear tree in the hedge Leans to the field, and scatters on the...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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Education, Volume 13

Education - 1892 - 708 pages
...elm-tree bole are in tiny leaf, While the chaffinch sings on the orchard bough In England — now! II. " 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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Thoughts in my garden, ed. by E. Yates, with notes by the ed. and ..., Volume 2

Edward James Mortimer Collins - 1880 - 318 pages
...When mavis and merle are singing !' How true, again, that Shakespeare-touch of Browning's : ' That's the wise thrush, he sings each song twice over, Lest...never could recapture The first fine careless rapture !' That thrush sang in May, according to the poet's lovely verse ; but this year the birds began long...
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Macleod's First text-book of elocution

Alfred Macleod - 1881 - 316 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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