Leave to the nightingale her shady wood;

A privacy of glorious light is thine;

Whence thou dost pour upon the world a flood

Of harmony, with rapture more divine;

Type of the wise who soar but never roam;

Twin to the kindred points of Heaven and home.

Wordsworth.

LINES.

So when the lark, poor bird! afar espyeth

Her yet unfeathered children, whom to save