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Updated: June 24, 2025
It was neither singing, nor chanting, nor speaking, but a subtle mixture of the three; and the effect upon me was one of haunting harmonies that left me profoundly moved. He began, "Birds in the high Hall-garden," and, skipping the next four sections, went on to, "I have led her home, my love, my only friend," and ended with: There has fallen a splendid tear From the passion-flower at the gate.
"Birds in the high Hall-garden When twilight was falling, Maud, Maud, Maud, Maud, They were crying and calling," was a favourite of the poet. "What birds were these?" he is said to have asked a lady suddenly, when reading to a silent company. "Nightingales," suggested a listener, who did not probably remember any other fowl that is vocal in the dusk. "No, they were rooks," answered the poet.
Birds in the high Hall-garden When twilight was falling, Maud, Maud, Maud, Maud, They were crying and calling, I asked her what bird she thought I meant. She said, 'A nightingale. This made me so angry that I nearly flung her to the ground: 'No, fool! ... Rook! said I."
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