Sweet bird

Fotografia de Taneli Lahtinen

Sweet bird, that shun'st the noise of folly,

Most musical, most melancholy!

Thee, chauntress, oft the woods among,

I woo to hear thy even-song.

Or, missing thee, I walk unseen,

On the dry smooth-shaven green,

To behold the wand'ring moon

Riding near her highest noon.

Sweet bird...

Charles Jennens (1740)