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Those acts of intellect which he performed in the flesh remain with us, as thunder and the song of the nightingale remain with us. Where'er that power may move Which has withdrawn his being to its own. This corresponds to the expression in st. 38 'The pure spirit shall flow Back to the burning fountain whence it came, A portion of the Eternal. Who wields the world with never wearied love, &c.
I dare say you know it as well as I do. Now, there's the nightingale that's the bird for recollectin' and makin' you recollect; and you might say dogs and 'osses too. You can see the memory in the dog's eyes and in the 'oss's face. But you can hear it in the bird's voice and hearin' and smellin' is better nor seein' when it comes to a matter o' rememberin.
'No, no; those are frogs! said the little kitchenmaid. 'But I think we shall soon hear her now! Then the Nightingale began to sing. 'There she is! cried the little girl. 'Listen! She is sitting there! And she pointed to a little dark-grey bird up in the branches. 'Is it possible! said the First Lord. 'I should never have thought it! How ordinary she looks!
Suddenly a silvery note floated in at the open window. It was the voice of the real Nightingale as it sat upon a bough outside. It had heard the Emperor was ill, and had come back to comfort him and fill him with hope. And as its song gained strength and rose and fell in delicious trills, the ghostly faces faded away and the warm life blood began to flow anew in the Emperor's veins.
Her voice rose up out of the dim, chill street, and made our hearts throb in unison with it as we sat in our comfortable drawing-room. I never heard a voice that touched me more deeply. Somebody told her to go away, and she stopped like a nightingale suddenly shot."
They therefore use it sparingly. Others again, the dove, the nightingale, the thrush, know that their voices are very pleasant, and entertain us with them all day and all night long; but They know that Their voices are the most hideous of all the sounds in the world, and, knowing this, They perpetually insist upon thrusting those voices upon us, saying, as it were, "I am giving myself pain, but I am giving you more pain, and therefore I shall go on."
That was a sinful thought, and he blessed himself to drive it away. Then a little bird out of the thicket sang clearly, and the old minne-song came into his mind: "From the forest, down in the vale, Sang her sweet song the nightingale." And here in the town of his childhood, which he thus saw again through tears, much came back into his remembrance.
Just at present the nations have too much political business on hand; but, after that has once been settled, we Germans, English, Spaniards, Frenchmen, and Italians, will all go to the green forest and sing, and the nightingale shall be umpire. I feel sure that in this contest the song of Wolfgang Goethe will gain the prize."
Judson, Howard, Wilberforce, and Florence Nightingale drew the inspiration of their benevolence from a dying Saviour's cross, and learned of him who, "though he was rich, yet for our sakes become poor, that we through his poverty might be rich." Christianity, as it was given by Jesus to the apostles, and by the apostles to mankind, was as perfect as the God who gave it.
Only the nightingale answered from the willows, with Desdemona's song. But Bébée had never heard of Desdemona, and the willows had no sigh for her. "Good night!" she said, softly, to all the green dewy sleeping world, and then she lay down and slept herself. The nightingale sang on, and the willows trembled.
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