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Maybe it’s overused but it worked for Keats’ nightingale:

Tis not through envy of thy happy lot,

But being too happy in thine happiness,—

That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees

In some melodious plot

Of beechen green, and shadows numberless,

Singest of summer in full-throated ease.

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I’ll allow it that one exception

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