“And sings a solitary song
That whistles in the wind.”
William Wordsworth book Lyrical Ballads
Lucy Gray, or Solitude, st. 16 (1799).
Lyrical Ballads (1798–1800)
“The Song of Solomon
The song of everyone
Who walks the path
Of the solitary heart.”
Song lyrics, The Red Shoes (1993)
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