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That still he loves the Bird, and still must love;
That friendship lasts though fellowship is broken!
[308] So all the editions have it; but, as Principal Greenwood suggested to me, the true reading should be “in that one.”—Ed.
“THE UNREMITTING VOICE OF NIGHTLY STREAMS”
Composed 1846.—Published 1850
One of the “Poems of Sentiment and Reflection.”—Ed.
The unremitting voice of nightly streams
That wastes so oft, we think, its tuneful powers,
If neither soothing to the worm that gleams