The Nightingale Leaveth For The Night Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

The nightingale leaveth for the night
Its mantle dark to cast like a witch spell
Now silence with love keepeth company
And the hefty heart-throbs slowly thrill.
Ah! love, Love why leave you for the night
Your best presents, the best Season, Spring,
The greenery of love in lush dark night full hid
From curious or love’s eyes full properly:
And now our nightingale unto her mate
From her hidden foliage into the night calleth
Tu-who-tu-whit-tu-whoo! The call recalls
Like bounding echoes from the cataract
Where silver bream jump swiftly out of stream
And in again to life’s welcome oxygen:
And in the night, this dark and wholesome night
Our nightingale full calleth to her mate.