I have seen the nightingale singing in the moonlight, free the nightingale did not know that upon in my spied. He interrupts himself at times, his head inclined, as if he's listening within himself to the lenght of a note that's died down … Then, swelling up his throat, he takes his song again with all his might, his head thrown back, the picture of amorous despair. He sings just to sing, he sings such lovely things that he does not know anymore what it was that they were meant to say.
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But I can still hear through the melancholy notes the piping of a flute, the quivering crystalline trills in clear vigorous cries, I can still hear the first innocent and frightened song of the nightingale caught within the tendrils of the vine