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Ralph Waldo Emerson, comp. (1803–1882). Parnassus: An Anthology of Poetry. 1880.

Dawn

William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

Juliet.—Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day,

It was the nightingale, and not the lark,

That pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear:

Nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree:

Believe me, love, it was the nightingale.

Romeo.—It was the lark, the herald of the morn,

No nightingale: look, love, what envious streaks

Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east:

Night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day

Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain-tops;

I must be gone and live, or stay and die.