“For Time will teach thee soon the truth,
There are no birds in last year's nest!”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
It is not always May, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Never look for birds of this year in the nests of the last.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 74.
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