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Quoted by the Scholiast on the Electra of Sophocles, 149, “the nightingale is the messenger of Zeus, because it is the sign of Spring.”

Compare Ben Jonson’s “The Sad Shepherd,” Act II, Scene vi: “The dear good angel of the Spring, the nightingale.”

Now Love, the ineluctable, dominates and shakes my being, and fills me with bitter-sweetness.

Now Love, the ineluctable, with bitter sweetness

Fills me, overwhelms me, and shakes my being.

Quoted by Hephaestion.