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GOOD-NIGHT OF THE BIRDS.


Ye give us many a lesson
    Of music high and rare,
Sweet teachers of the lays of heaven,
    Say, will ye not be there?
Ye have no sins, like ours, to purge
    With penitential dew;
Oh! in the clime of perfect love,
    Is there no place for you?