Crossword-Solution: MERLES 6 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Would you be knight and dame? Or woo the sweet humanities? Or illustrate a name? O Vanity of Vanities! We sound the sea for pearls, Or drown them in a drain; We flute it with the merles, Or tug and sweat and strain; We grovel, or we reign; We saunter, or we brawl; We answer, or we call; We search the stars for Fame, Or sink her subterranities; The legend’s still the same:— ‘O Vanity of Vanities!’ Here at the wine one birls, There some one clanks a chain.

Wild foals are scampering, neighing, Brave merles their hautboys blow: Come! let us go a-maying As in the Long-Ago.

Mountains of argument have been built on these words, deux merles, ‘two gaol-birds.’ One of the two, we shall see, became the source of the legend of the Man in the Iron Mask.

And all around the place that child of the grape, the vine, doth flourish with its tendrils, and the merles in spring with their sweet songs utter their wood-notes wild, and the brown nightingales reply with their complaints, pouring from their bills the honey-sweet song.

Tout en composant des solfèges, Qu'aux merles il siffle à mi-voix, Il sème aux prés les perce-neiges Et les violettes aux bois.