Crossword-Solution: DOVELETS 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Linnunrata (bird-path) is the name given to the Milky-way, due probably to a myth like those of the Swedes and Slavs, in which liberated songs take the form of snow-white dovelets.

LXXXI CHOICE In my court the morning's twilight found me; At the chase the early sun while rising, I upon the mountain--and behind it, On that mountain, 'neath a dark-green pine tree Lo! I saw a lovely maiden sleeping; On a clover-sheaf her head was pillow'd; On her bosom lay two snowy dovelets; In her lap there was a dappled fawnkin.

There I tarried till the fall of ev'ning: Bound my steed at night around the pine-tree: Bound my falcon to the pine-tree branches: Gave the sheaf of clover to my courser: Gave the two white dovelets to my falcon: Gave the dappled fawn to my good greyhound: And, for me,--I took the lovely maiden.

There I tarried till the fall of ev’ning: Bound my steed at night around the pine-tree: Bound my falcon to the pine-tree branches: Gave the sheaf of clover to my courser: Gave the two white dovelets to my falcon: Gave the dappled fawn to my good greyhound: And, for me,—I took the lovely maiden.

She walks erect, the virgin undefiled, Back from her throat the loose robe falls apart, And e’en as she would clasp her royal Child, She holds the dovelets to her tender heart.