"Amid thy desert-walks the lapwing flies, And tires their echoes with unvaried cries."
— Birds

January 1, 1970

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Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village (1770), line 44; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 427.