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"But before I tell it, thou must first sing for me all the songs thou hast sung for thy child! I am fond of them. I have heard them before; I am Night; I saw thy tears whilst thou sang'st them!" "I will sing them all, all!" said the mother. "But do not stop me now I may overtake him I may find my child!" But Night stood still and mute.
Who sang'st responsive to my simple strain, Johanna goes, and ne'er returns again. Ye scenes where all my tranquil joys I knew, Forever now I leave you far behind! Poor foldless lambs, no shepherd now have you! O'er the wide heath stray henceforth unconfined! For I to danger's field, of crimson hue, Am summoned hence another flock to find.
"Oh, only tell me which way he went!" said the mother: "Tell me the way, and I shall find him!" "I know it!" said the woman in the black clothes, "but before I tell it, thou must first sing for me all the songs thou hast sung for thy child! I am fond of them; I have heard them before; I am Night; I saw thy tears whilst thou sang'st them!"
He has been expecting something like a song of Patti accompanied on the piano by Paderewski. It was an American poetess Mrs. Piatt who informed the skylark: The song thou sang'st to Shelley was not half So sweet as that which Shelley sang to thee! After all, birds repeat themselves sadly they strike one note, like a minor poet, and live on the reputation of their first success.
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