“And this was your Cradle? Why, surely, my Jenny,
Such cozy dimensions go clearly to show
You were an exceedingly small pickaninny,
Some nineteen or twenty short summers ago.”

—  Frederick Locker-Lampson

The old Cradle; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

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