From “Spring”

Sound the flute!
Now it’s mute!
Bird’s delight,
Day and night,
Nightingale,
In the dale,
Lark in sky,—
Merrily,
Merrily merrily, to welcome in the year.

First published in Songs of Innocence (1789).


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To the New Year,” a poem by W. S. Merwin


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