The Song of the Nightingale is Like the Scent of Syringa
By Mina Loy
Nightingale singing—gale of Nanking
Sing—mystery
of Ming-dynasty
sing
ing
in Ming
Syringa
Myringa
Singer
Song-winged
sing-wind
syringa
ringer
Song-wing
sing long
syringa
lingerer
Copyright Credit: Mina Loy, “The Song of the Nightingale is Like the Scent of Syringa” from Lunar Baedeker and Times-Tables (Highlands, NC: Jonathan Williams Publisher, 1958). Copyright 1958 by Mina Loy. Reprinted with the permission of Roger L. Conover for the Estate of Mina Loy.
Source: Lunar Baedeker and Time Tables (The Jargon Society, 1958)