O’er the far blue sea!
Drive not here to me
Flocks of other doves.
Ah! of all thy doves
None can comfort me;
Only he, the father
Of my little ones.”
—From Talvi’s Historical View.
THE FAITHLESS LOVER
Nightingale, O nightingale,
O’er the far blue sea!
Drive not here to me
Flocks of other doves.
Ah! of all thy doves
None can comfort me;
Only he, the father
Of my little ones.”
—From Talvi’s Historical View.
Nightingale, O nightingale,