"Abra was ready ere I called her name; And though I called another, Abra came."
— Matthew Prior

January 1, 1970

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Poets from EnglandDiplomats of the United KingdomChief Secretaries for Ireland
Original Language: English

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Solomon on the Vanity of the World, book ii, line 364; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).