Quote#Love
I have heard the mavis singing
Quote byCharles Jefferys · 1807–1865
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Mary of Argyle, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)..
English (original)
I have heard the mavis singing Its love-song to the morn; I've seen the dew-drop clinging To the rose just newly born.
— Charles Jefferys
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