Excerpt from Poems and Idylls Proem. "Operosa parvus carmina fingo." I. The Nightingale trilleth loud and sweet, And the Wren sings soft and clear; The Robin doth warble in his retreat At the close of the dying year. The Throstle sings loud in the month of March, And the Blackbird carols till June; The Cuckoo calls when buds the larch, And the Linnet pipes his tune. Yea, every bird, in various song, Sings out on the world's highway; And the rippling brook all the summer long, Murmurs a roundelay. The wind roars loud as it hurries past, And the gentle breeze sings low, The rain has a rhythm as well as the blast, When it falls on the May's sweet snow. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books.

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