“Do you recall that night in June
Upon the Danube River;
We listened to the ländler-tune,
We watched the moonbeams quiver.”
The Danube River, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Source: The Secret Life of Bees (2002)
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