Ah, see, he dies!
Yet even in death Eurydice he sung,
Eurydice still trembled on his tongue:
Eurydice the woods
Eurydice the floods
Eurydice the rocks and hollow mountains rung.”
The superior melody of the nightingale’s song over the grave of Orpheus is alluded to by Southey in his “Thalaba”:
“Then on his ear what sounds
Of harmony arose!
Far music and the distance-mellowed song