The Mavis.
SSWEET Mavis! at this cool delicious hourOf gloaming, with a pensive quietnessHushes the odorous air,—with what a powerOf impulse unsubdued, thou dost expressThyself a spirit! While the silver dewHoly as manna on the meadow falls,Thy song’s impassioned clarity, trembling throughThis omnipresent stillness, disenthralsThe soul to adoration. First I heardA low thick lubric gurgle, soft as love,Yet sad as memory, thro’ the silence pouredLike starlight. But the mood intenser grows,Precipitate rapture quickens, move on moveLucidly linked together, till the close.
SSWEET Mavis! at this cool delicious hourOf gloaming, with a pensive quietnessHushes the odorous air,—with what a powerOf impulse unsubdued, thou dost expressThyself a spirit! While the silver dewHoly as manna on the meadow falls,Thy song’s impassioned clarity, trembling throughThis omnipresent stillness, disenthralsThe soul to adoration. First I heardA low thick lubric gurgle, soft as love,Yet sad as memory, thro’ the silence pouredLike starlight. But the mood intenser grows,Precipitate rapture quickens, move on moveLucidly linked together, till the close.
SSWEET Mavis! at this cool delicious hourOf gloaming, with a pensive quietnessHushes the odorous air,—with what a powerOf impulse unsubdued, thou dost expressThyself a spirit! While the silver dewHoly as manna on the meadow falls,Thy song’s impassioned clarity, trembling throughThis omnipresent stillness, disenthralsThe soul to adoration. First I heardA low thick lubric gurgle, soft as love,Yet sad as memory, thro’ the silence pouredLike starlight. But the mood intenser grows,Precipitate rapture quickens, move on moveLucidly linked together, till the close.
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