Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for thee any better … - Robert Bridges

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Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for thee
any better melody in the April woods at dawn
than what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awake
o'night in his comfortless attic, might perchance
be aware of, when the rats run amok in his thatch?

Robert Bridges

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Robert Seymour Bridges, OM (October 23, 1844 – April 21, 1930) was an English poet. He was poet laureate from 1913 to 1930.

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Alternative Names: Robert Seymour Bridges • Robert S. Bridges

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John Keats Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Letitia Elizabeth Landon Samuel Taylor Coleridge William Wordsworth

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I live on hope and that I think do all
Who come into this world.

Good melody is never out of fashion

But I can tell — let truth be told —
That love will change in growing old;
Though day by day is nought to see,
So delicate his motions be.

Nature hav no music; nor would ther be for thee any better melody in the April woods at dawn than what an old stone-deaf labourer, lying awake o'nigh… - Robert Bridges

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