Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns The earliest...

Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns
The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

The Princess (1847) pt. 4, l. 31, song (added 1850)

Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds.

Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds.

Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds.

Ah, sad and strange as in dark summer dawns The earliest pipe of half-awakened birds.