"The birds can fly, an' why can't I?……" — John Townsend Trowbridge
"The birds can fly, an' why can't I? Must we give in, says he with a grin, That the bluebird an' phoebe are smarter 'n we be?"
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6 Quotes by John Townsend Trowbridge
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