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Charlotte Smith - Sonnet LV.
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RETURN OF THE NIGHTINGALE. 
Written in May, 1791. 
BORNE on the warm wing of the western gale,
How tremulously low is heard to float
Thro` the green budding thorns that fringe the vale
The early Nightingale`s prelusive note.
`Tis Hope`s instinctive power that through the grove
Tells how benignant Heaven revives the earth;
`Tis the soft voice of young and timid love
That calls these melting sounds of sweetness forth.
With transport, once, sweet bird! I hail`d thy lay,
And bade thee welcome to our shades again,
To charm the wandering poet`s pensive way
And soothe the solitary lover`s pain;
But now!--such evils in my lot combine,
As shut my languid sense--to Hope`s dear voice and thine!
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