Here have I heard a sweet bird never lin

To chide the river for his clam'rous din;

There seem'd another in his song to tell,

That what the fair stream did he liked well;

And going further heard another too,

All varying still in what the others do;

A little thence, a fourth with little pain

Conn'd all their lessons, and them sung again;

So numberless the songsters are that sing

In the sweet groves of the too-careless spring,