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...Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. XIIL Teach us, sprite or bird, What sweet thoughts are thine : I have never henrd Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. XIV. Chorus hymeneal,...

...these heavy-wingSd thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous and clear and fresh, thy music...of rapture so divine. Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chant, Matched with thine would be all But an empty vaunt — A thing wherein we feel there is some...

...HERBERT 211 TO THE SKYLARK SOUND of vernal showers on the twinkling grass, rain-awakened flowers, all that ever was joyous and clear and fresh, thy music...wine that panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. What objects are the fountains of thy happy strain? what fields or waves or mountains? what shapes...

...these heavy-winged thieves. Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music...wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. TO A SKYLARK. 63 Chorus hymeneal, Or triumphal chant, Matched with thine would be all But an empty...

...showers a rain of melody. • "Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Bain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music...Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of japture so divine. " Better than all measures That in books are found, Thy skill to poet were, thou...

...fitly applied to him : — Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakened flowers, All that ever was Joyous and clear and fresh thy music doth surpass. It seems natural to turn from Shelley to the young poet whose death he has so exquisitely mourned in...

...rainbow clouds there flow not Drops so bright to see As from thy presence showers a rain of melody. All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass. What objects are the fountains Of thy happy strain? What fields, or waves, or mountains? What shapes...

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...those heavy-winged thieves: Sound of vernal showers On the twinkling grass, Rain-awakening flowers, All that ever was Joyous, and clear, and fresh, thy music doth surpass: Teach us, Sprite or Bird, I have never heard Praise of love or wine That panted forth a flood of rapture so divine. Chorus Hymeneal,...