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_He._ Ah, the bird-like fluting / Through the ash-tops yonder -- / Bullfinch-bubblings, soft sounds suiting / What sweet thoughts, I wonder? / Fine-pearled notes that surely / Gather, dewdrop-fashion, / Deep-down in some heart which purely / Secretes globuled passion -- / Passion insuppressive -- / Such is piped, for certain; / Love, no doubt, nay, love excessive / 'T is, your ash-tops curtain.
Would your ash-tops open / We might spy the player -- / Seek and find some sense which no pen / Yet from singer, sayer, / Ever has extracted: / Never, to my knowledge, / Yet has pedantry enacted / That, in Cupid's College, / Just this variation / Of the old, old yearning / Should by plain speech have salvation, / Yield new men new learning.