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Oh could I fly, I 'd fly with thee! We 'd make with joyful wing Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions of the spring.
Oh could I fly, I 'd fly with thee! We 'd make with joyful wing Our annual visit o'er the globe, Companions of the spring.
Approximate author period: c. 1768 AD · early modern
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- John Logan
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- Approximate author period: c. 1768 AD · early modern
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
To the Cuckoo.
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