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Enters your hostess with two ringdoves perched familiarly on her shoulder.

Yon palace, towering to the welkin blue, Where kings did bow them down, and homage do, I saw a ringdove on its arches perched, And thus she made complaint, �Coo, Coo, Coo, Coo!�

The ringdove sate silent in the dell; and the wood-quests were gathering into groups.

Linger awhile upon some bending planks 5 That lean against a streamlet's rushy banks, And watch intently Nature's gentle doings, They will be found softer than ringdove's cooings.

Now in sight, perchance in hearing Of the melancholy plover, Of the bluebird’s thrilling whistle, Of the redbird’s gentle chirping, Of the blackbird’s noisy chatter, Of the whippoorwill’s soft pleading, And the ringdove’s tender cooing.