...Music has given the early stanzas a wide celebrity, which the moral of the later ones equally deserve. As it fell upon a day In the merry month of May, Sitting...myrtles made ; Beasts did leap and birds did sing, 'Frees did grow, and plants did spring ; Every thing did banish moan Save the nightingale alone ; She,...

...No »tab the soul can kill. [Addnuu to tlie Niglttiagak.'} As it fell upon a day, In the merry mouth of May, Sitting in a pleasant shade Which a grove...and birds did sing. Trees did grow, and plants did spnug ; Everything did banish moan, Save the nightingale alone. She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Lean'd...

...which Rossini, the minstrel of the south, was wont to love so well — who that has felt sympathy with 'As it fell, upon a day, In the merry month of May,' admired that masterpiece of glee and chorus, ' The chough and crow, or been moved to jollity at some...

...my tongue to be so long : Yet will she blush, here be it said, To hear her secrets so bewray'd. xvn. As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May,...birds did sing, Trees did grow, and plants did spring : Everything did banish moan, Save the nightingale alone : She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Lean'd her...

...plaintive. One of the quaint school of Elizabethan poets thus expresses himself on the subject — " Beasts did leap and birds did sing, Trees did grow...She, poor bird, as all forlorn, Lean'd her breast against a thorn, And there sung the dolefull'st ditty ; Fie, fie, fie, now would she cry, Tern, tern,...

...in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love. As it fell upon a day. In the merry month of May,...in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made, Trees did grow, and plants did spring : Beasts did leap, and birds did sing, Everything did banish...

...is now generally believed to be the author of the following song, sometimes ascribed to Shakespeare. "As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May,...a pleasant shade, Which a grove of myrtles made." 'It may be seen in the collected poems of Richard Barnfield, 1598. The same idea we find repeated by...

...is now generally believed to be the anthor of the following song, sometimes ascribed to Shakespeare. "As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May,...a pleasant shade, Which a grove of myrtles made." 'It may be seen in the collected poems of Richard Barnfield, 1598. The same idea we find repeated by...

...is now generally believed to be the author of the following song, sometimes ascribed to Shakspeare. "As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May,...a pleasant shade, Which a grove of myrtles made." It may be seen in the collected poems of Richard Barnfield, 1598. The same idea we find repeated by...

...since I needs must die, And give the world the lie. RICHARD BARNFIELD. Address to the Nightingale.^ As it fell upon a day, In the merry month of May,...in a pleasant shade Which a grove of myrtles made. * Sylvester is now generally regarded as the author of " The Soul's Errand," long attributed to Raleigh....