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" And while he waited in the castle court,
The voice of Enid, Yniol's daughter, rang
Clear through the open casement of the hall,
Singing; and as the sweet voice of a bird,
Heard by the lander in a lonely isle,
Moves him to think what kind of bird it is
That sings so delicately clear, and make
Conjecture of the plumage and the form;
So the sweet voice of Enid moved Geraint;
And made him like a man abroad at morn
When first the liquid note beloved of men
Comes flying over many a windy wave
To Britain, and in April suddenly
Breaks from a coppice gemmed with green and red,
And he suspends his converse with a friend,
Or it may be the labour of his hands,
To think or say, 'There is the nightingale;'
So fared it with Geraint, who thought and said,
'Here, by God's grace, is the one voice for me. "

Alfred Tennyson , Idylls of the King


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Alfred Tennyson quote : And while he waited in the castle court,<br />The voice of Enid, Yniol's daughter, rang<br />Clear through the open casement of the hall,<br />Singing; and as the sweet voice of a bird,<br />Heard by the lander in a lonely isle,<br />Moves him to think what kind of bird it is<br />That sings so delicately clear, and make<br />Conjecture of the plumage and the form;<br />So the sweet voice of Enid moved Geraint;<br />And made him like a man abroad at morn<br />When first the liquid note beloved of men<br />Comes flying over many a windy wave<br />To Britain, and in April suddenly<br />Breaks from a coppice gemmed with green and red,<br />And he suspends his converse with a friend,<br />Or it may be the labour of his hands,<br />To think or say, 'There is the nightingale;'<br />So fared it with Geraint, who thought and said,<br />'Here, by God's grace, is the one voice for me.