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When the Arts in their infancy were, / In a fable of old 'tis express'd / A wise magpie constructed that rare / Little house for young birds, call'd a nest.
This was talk'd of the whole country round; / You might hear it on every bough sung, / "Now no longer upon the rough ground / Will fond mothers brood over their young: