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15The pinks along my garden walksHave all shot forth their summer stalks,Thronging their buds ’mong tulips hot,And blue forget-me-not.Their dazzling snows forth-bursting soonWill lade the idle breath of June:And waken thro’ the fragrant nightTo steal the pale moonlight.The nightingale at end of MayLingers each year for their display;Till when he sees their blossoms blown,He knows the spring is flown.June’s birth they greet, and when their bloomDislustres, withering on his tomb,Then summer hath a shortening day;And steps slow to decay.

15The pinks along my garden walksHave all shot forth their summer stalks,Thronging their buds ’mong tulips hot,And blue forget-me-not.Their dazzling snows forth-bursting soonWill lade the idle breath of June:And waken thro’ the fragrant nightTo steal the pale moonlight.The nightingale at end of MayLingers each year for their display;Till when he sees their blossoms blown,He knows the spring is flown.June’s birth they greet, and when their bloomDislustres, withering on his tomb,Then summer hath a shortening day;And steps slow to decay.

The pinks along my garden walksHave all shot forth their summer stalks,Thronging their buds ’mong tulips hot,And blue forget-me-not.Their dazzling snows forth-bursting soonWill lade the idle breath of June:And waken thro’ the fragrant nightTo steal the pale moonlight.The nightingale at end of MayLingers each year for their display;Till when he sees their blossoms blown,He knows the spring is flown.June’s birth they greet, and when their bloomDislustres, withering on his tomb,Then summer hath a shortening day;And steps slow to decay.

The pinks along my garden walksHave all shot forth their summer stalks,Thronging their buds ’mong tulips hot,And blue forget-me-not.Their dazzling snows forth-bursting soonWill lade the idle breath of June:And waken thro’ the fragrant nightTo steal the pale moonlight.The nightingale at end of MayLingers each year for their display;Till when he sees their blossoms blown,He knows the spring is flown.June’s birth they greet, and when their bloomDislustres, withering on his tomb,Then summer hath a shortening day;And steps slow to decay.

The pinks along my garden walksHave all shot forth their summer stalks,Thronging their buds ’mong tulips hot,And blue forget-me-not.

The pinks along my garden walks

Have all shot forth their summer stalks,

Thronging their buds ’mong tulips hot,

And blue forget-me-not.

Their dazzling snows forth-bursting soonWill lade the idle breath of June:And waken thro’ the fragrant nightTo steal the pale moonlight.

Their dazzling snows forth-bursting soon

Will lade the idle breath of June:

And waken thro’ the fragrant night

To steal the pale moonlight.

The nightingale at end of MayLingers each year for their display;Till when he sees their blossoms blown,He knows the spring is flown.

The nightingale at end of May

Lingers each year for their display;

Till when he sees their blossoms blown,

He knows the spring is flown.

June’s birth they greet, and when their bloomDislustres, withering on his tomb,Then summer hath a shortening day;And steps slow to decay.

June’s birth they greet, and when their bloom

Dislustres, withering on his tomb,

Then summer hath a shortening day;

And steps slow to decay.


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