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His poem on the nightingale and the stockdove illustrates with half-conscious allegory the contrast between himself and certain other poets. O Nightingale! Thou surely art A creature of a fiery heart: These notes of thine they pierce and pierce; Tumultuous harmony and fierce!
These attainments, these ambitious designs, however, were far from helping him to any preferment; and he was still in quest of his first curacy when a chance ramble in that part of London, the peaceful and rich aspect of the garden, a desire for solitude and study, and the cheapness of the lodging, led him to take up his abode with Mr. Raeburn, the nurseryman of Stockdove Lane.
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