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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
COST, by PEARL COUNCIL HIATT
First Line: Not when the songbird soaring finds
Last Line: Earth hears its sweetest singing.
Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales
First Line: Not when the songbird soaring finds
Last Line: Earth hears its sweetest singing.
Subject(s): Birds; Nightingales
Not when the songbird soaring finds
Where summer skies are brightest;
Nor when the human spirit knows
The laughter that is lightest.
A nightingale against a thorn;
The heart that grief is wringing --
How passing strange that only thus
Earth hears its sweetest singing.
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