Jean Ingelow, Songs of Seven, Seven Times One.
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And show me your nest with the young ones in it,
I will not steal them away;
I am old! you may trust me, linnet, linnet—
I am seven times one to-day.
— Birth
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "And show me your nest with the young ones in it,
I will not steal them away;
I am old! you may trust me, linnet, linnet—
I am seven times one to-day." in the context of "Jean Ingelow, Songs of Seven, Seven Times One." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Birth" (Quotes, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations: Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 70.)
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