Canto 28The Nightingale
Book 2. Part Two - Baroda Circa 1898 – 1902
An Impression
Hark in the trees the low-voiced nightingale
Has slain the silence with a jubilant cry;
How clear in the hushed night, yet voluble
5And various as sweet water wavering by,
That murmurs in a channel small
Beneath a low grey wall,
Then sings amid the fitful rye.
O sweet grave Siren of the night,
10Astarte’s eremite,
Thou feedest every leaf with solemn glee.
Lo, the night-winds sigh happier, being chid by thee.