"When the swallows homeward fly, When the roses scattered lie, When from neither hill or dale, Chants the silvery nightingale: In these words my bleeding heart Would to thee its grief impart; When I thus thy image lose Can I, ah! can I, e'er know repose?"
— Birds

January 1, 1970

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Carl Herloßsohn, "When the Swallows Homeward Fly". Reported in J. K. Hoyt (ed.) The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations, rev. ed. (1896), p. 42. Reported without attribution in Beadle's Dime Song Book (New York: Beadle & Co., 1859), no. 5, p. 11