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 I said to the brown, brown thrush:
 "Hush, hush!
  Through the wood's full strains I hear
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 I said to the brown, brown thrush:
 "Hush, hush!
  Through the wood's full strains I hear
   Thy monotone deep and clear,
    Like a sound amid sounds most fine." 
 Sing, sweet thrushes, forth and sing!
 Meet the moon upon the lea;
  Are the emeralds of the read more 
 Sing, sweet thrushes, forth and sing!
 Meet the moon upon the lea;
  Are the emeralds of the spring
   On the angler's trysting-tree?
    Tell, sweet thrushes, tell to me,
     Are there buds on our willow-tree?
      Buds and birds on our trysting tree? 
 At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears,
 Hangs a thrush that sings loud, it has sung for read more 
 At the corner of Wood Street, when daylight appears,
 Hangs a thrush that sings loud, it has sung for three years. 
 Hush!
 With sudden gush
  As from a fountain sings in yonder bush
   The Hermit read more 
 Hush!
 With sudden gush
  As from a fountain sings in yonder bush
   The Hermit Thrush. 
 Across the noisy street
 I hear him careless throw
  One warning utterance sweet;
   Then read more 
 Across the noisy street
 I hear him careless throw
  One warning utterance sweet;
   Then faint at first, and low,
    The full notes closer grow;
     Hard, what a torrent gush!
      They pour, they overflow--
       Sing on, sing on, O thrush! 
 When rosy plumelets tuft the larch,
 And rarely pipes the mounted thrush.  
 When rosy plumelets tuft the larch,
 And rarely pipes the mounted thrush. 
 O thrush, your song is passing sweet,
 But never a song that you have sung
  Is half read more 
 O thrush, your song is passing sweet,
 But never a song that you have sung
  Is half so sweet as thrushes sang
   When my dear love and I were young. 
 In the gloamin' o' the wood
 The throssil whusslit sweet.  
 In the gloamin' o' the wood
 The throssil whusslit sweet.