Nightingale and Cuckoo
Alfred Austin
1835 to 1913
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Reconstruct the poem by dragging each line into its correct position. Your goal is to reassemble the original poem as accurately as possible. As you move the lines, you'll see whether your arrangement is correct, helping you explore the poem's flow and meaning. You can also print out the jumbled poem to cut up and reassemble in the classroom. Either way, take your time, enjoy the process, and discover how the poet's words come together to create something truly beautiful.
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While yet the cuckoo doth his call repeat?
And so found solace. Now, alas! the sting!
Until we know not which is the more sweet,
Nor yet have learned that both of them are vain!
That in the April of our life compete,
Not so with me. To sweet woe did I cling
Yet wherefore, nightingale! break off thy strain,
Are emblems of the rapture and the pain
That you should come together; for ye twain
Long after echoing happiness was dead,
Neither for joy nor sorrow do I sing,
Cuckoo and nightingale alike have fled;
And autumn silence gathers in their stead.
Yes, nightingale and cuckoo! it was meet