Selfsame Song...

A bird sings the selfsame song.
With never a fault in its flow...
That we listened to here those long
Long years ago...

A pleasing marvel is how
A strain of such rapturous rote
Should have gone on thus till now
Unchanged in a note !

--- But it's not the selfsame bird---
No; perished to dust is he...
As also are those who heard
The song with me !

The end !...