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See how that pair of billing doves With open murmurs own their loves And, heedless of censorious eyes, Pursue their unpolluted joys: No fears of future want molest The downy quiet of their nest.
See how that pair of billing doves With open murmurs own their loves And, heedless of censorious eyes, Pursue their unpolluted joys: No fears of future want molest The downy quiet of their nest.
Approximate author period: c. 1726 AD · early modern
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- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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- Approximate author period: c. 1726 AD · early modern
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 201 · quotation 8 · Lady Mary Wortley Montagu · Verses. Written in a Garden. St. 1.
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