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Слушать(AI)The Mocking-Bird
Superb and sole, upon a plumed
That o'er the general leafage boldly grew,
He summ'd the woods in song; or typic
The watch of hungry hawks, the lone
Of languid doves when long their lovers stray,
And all birds' passion-plays that sprinkle
At morn in brake or bosky avenue.
Whate'er birds did or dreamed, this bird could say.
Then down he shot, bounced airily
The sward, twitched in a grasshopper, made
Midflight, perched, prinked, and to his art again.
Sweet Science, this large riddle read me plain:
How may the death of that dull insect
The life of yon trim Shakespeare on the tree?
Sidney Lanier
Sidney Clopton Lanier[1] (February 3, 1842 – September 7, 1881) was an American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate States A
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