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Alfred Austin - Nughtingale And Cuckoo
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Yes, nightingale and cuckoo! it was meet
 That you should come together; for ye twain
 Are emblems of the rapture and the pain
 That in the April of our life compete,
 Until we know not which is the more sweet,
 Nor yet have learned that both of them are vain!
 Yet wherefore, nightingale! break off thy strain,
 While yet the cuckoo doth his call repeat?
 Not so with me. To sweet woe did I cling
 Long after echoing happiness was dead,
 And so found solace. Now, alas! the sting!
 Cuckoo and nightingale alike have fled;
 Neither for joy nor sorrow do I sing,
 And autumn silence gathers in their stead.
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