“The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.”
Victor Hugo book The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Source: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
“There was an Old Man with a beard,
Who said, "It is just as I feared!—
Two Owls and a Hen,
Four Larks and a Wren,
Have all built their nests in my beard!"”
Book of Nonsense http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext97/nnsns10.txt, Limerick 1 (1846).
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