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Nature hav no music nor would ther be for theeany better melody in the April woods at dawnthan what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awakeo'night in his comfortless attic, might perchancebe aware of, when the rats run amok in his thatch?

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Robert Bridges
Age: 85 †
Born: 1844
Born: October 23
Died: 1930
Died: April 21
Poet
Writer
Kent
England
Robert Seymour Bridges
Robert S. Bridges
Music
Stone
Labourer
Better
Woods
Labourers
Might
Stones
Attic
Would
Aware
Attics
Lying
April
Thatch
Running
Rats
Comfortless
Night
Deaf
Ther
Nature
Melody
Amok

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I have loved flowers that fade,Within whose magic tentsRich hues have marriage madeWith sweet unmemoried scents:A honeymoon delight,A joy of love at sight,That ages in an hourMy song be like a flower!
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