We have no leas, no larks, no rooks,
No swains, no nightingales,
No singing milkmaids (save in books):
The poet does his best—
It is the rhyme that fails!
Nathan Haskell Dole.
CAELI
IF stars were really watching eyes
Of angel armies in the skies,
We have no leas, no larks, no rooks,
No swains, no nightingales,
No singing milkmaids (save in books):
The poet does his best—
It is the rhyme that fails!
Nathan Haskell Dole.
IF stars were really watching eyes
Of angel armies in the skies,