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“Birds in their little nests agree; And 't is a shameful sight When children of one family Fall out, and chide, and fight.”
Provenance
- Source:
- Divine Songs. Song xvii.
- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 7ef7c6fa32a18295a64cde25d6a8bdb188708198b7d7e247be0bef2c0b3bd690
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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