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First Line: Dear quirister [chorister], who from those shadows sends
Last Line: With trembling wings sobbed forth, I love, I love.
Alternate Author Name(s): Drummond, William
Variant Title(s): Sonnet To The Nightingale;sonnet
Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales


Dear quirister, who from those shadows sends,
Ere that the blushing dawn dare show her light,
Such sad lamenting strains that night attends
Become all ear, stars stay to hear thy plight;
If one whose grief even reach of thought transcends,
Who ne'er, not in a dream, did taste delight,
May thee importune who like case pretends
And seems to joy in woe, in woe's despite;
Tell me, so may thou Fortune milder try
And long, long sing, for what thou thus complains?
Sith, winter gone, the sun in dappled sky
Now smiles on meadows, mountains, woods and plains?
The bird, as if my questions did her move,
With trembling wings sobbed forth, I love, I love.





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