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"`Know, Nature, like the cuckoo, laughs at law"

by Alfred Austin

Alfred Austin

`Know, Nature, like the cuckoo, laughs at law,
Placing her eggs in whatso nest she will;
And when, at callow-time, you think to find
The sparrow's stationary chirp, lo! bursts
Voyaging voice to glorify the Spring.'




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