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NYJ-N.773.061
15 Apr 1773:41 (1580)
AN ELEGY ON A BLACKBIRD. By Lord Lyttleton, or Gilbert West,
Esq;
The sun had chac'd the winter's snow,
And kindly loos'd the frost-bound soil;
The melting streams began to flow,
And plowmen urg'd their annual toil.
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A blackbird rais'd his am'rous song,
And thus it echo'd through the grove.
"O! fairest of the feather'd train,
For whom I sing, for whom I burn;
Attend with pity to my strain,
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The larks responsive love tales sing,
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Nor can the lark so sweetly sing
As I [25 more lines]
He ceas'd his song. [7 more lines]
Next morn, he wak'd her with a song:
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Divided pair! forgive the wrong,
While I with tears your fate rehearse:
I'll join the widow's plaintive song,
And save the lover in my verse.
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