• The song-birds? are they flown away?
      The song-birds of the summer-time,
    That sang their souls into the day,
      And set the laughing days to rhyme?—
    No catbird scatters through the hush
      The sparkling crystals of its song;
    Within the woods no hermit-thrush
      Trails an enchanted flute along,
    A sweet assertion of the hush.

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