“You meaner beauties of the night,
\n that poorly satisfy our eyes
\nMore by your number than by your light,
\nYou common people of the skies;
\nWhat are you when the moon shall rise?<\/p>\n
You curious chanters of the wood,
\nThat warble forth Dame Nature’s lays,
\nThinking your passions understood
\nBy your weak accents; what’s your praise
\nWhen Philomel her voice shall raise?<\/p>\n
You violets that first appear,
\nBy your pure purple mantles known
\nLike the proud virgins of the year,
\nAs if the spring were all your own;
\nWhat are you when the rose is blown?<\/p>\n
So, when my mistress shall be seen
\nIn form and beauty of her mind,
\nBy virtue first, then choice, a Queen,
\nTell me, if she were not design’d
\nTh’ eclipse and glory of her kind.” Sir Henry Wotton.<\/p>\n
Philomel is a poetic description of the Nightingale.
\nIslander.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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