“Her every tone is music's own,
Like those of morning birds,
And something more than melody
Dwells ever in her words.”

—  Edward Coote Pinkney

A Health, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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American poet, lawyer, sailor, professor, and editor 1802–1828

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