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The Woodman and the Nightingale - Illustration on Sermon | IllustrateTheWord

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The Woodman and the Nightingale

By Percy Bysshe ShelleySource: Percy Bysshe Shelley - PoetryDB (Public Domain)1496 words

A woodman whose rough heart was out of tune

(I think such hearts yet never came to good)

Hated to hear, under the stars or moon,

One nightingale in an interfluous wood

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