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MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸

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MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸
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'The Nightingale Near The Lawn', by Harold Monro

@handmade_ghost bet I can guess your favourite line 😉
#Poetry #Nature #Birds

Here is the soundles cypress on the lawn:
It listens, listens. Taller trees beyond
Listen. The moon at the unruffled pond
Stares. And you sing, you sing.

That star-enchanted song falls through the air
From lawn to lawn down terraces of sound,
Darts in white arrows on the shadowed ground;
While all the night you sing.

My dreams are flowers to which you are a bee,
As all night long I listen, and my brain
Receives your song, then loses it again
In moonlight on the lawn.

Now is your voice a marble high and white,
Then like a mist on fields of paradise;
Now is a raging fire, then is like ice;
Then breaks, and it is dawn.

#Nature #Poetry #birds @handmade ghost

handmade ghost 6 Tage her •

I mean, that whole third stanza feels very true to life lol 🥰

MiniMia 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇵🇸 6 Tage her •

Aye, that was a close second to "That star-enchanted song falls through the air ... "

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