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John Bartlett (1820–1905).  Familiar Quotations, 10th ed.  1919.
 
 
NUMBER:6788
AUTHOR:Alfred Tennyson Tennyson (1809–1892)
QUOTATION:  I do but sing because I must,
And pipe but as the linnets sing. 1 
ATTRIBUTION:In Memoriam. xxi. Stanza 6.
BIOGRAPHY:Columbia Encyclopedia.
 
Note 1.
I sing but as the linnet sings:
Ich singe, wie der Vogel singt
  Der in den Zweigen wohnet.
Goethe: Wilhelm Meister, book ii, chap. xi. [back]
 

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