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(With a bit of Pine)

A feather from the whippoorwillThat everlasting sings,Whose galleries are sunrise,Whose stanzas are the spring,Whose emerald nest the ages spinWith mellow murmuring thread,Whose beryl egg what schoolboys huntIn "recess" overhead![1]
  1. Published on page 266 of the "Life and Letters."