“A robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all Heaven in a rage.”
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Source: 1800s, Auguries of Innocence (1803), Line 5
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I am still just a rat in the cage." by Billy Corgan?
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Variant: A cage went in search of a bird.
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