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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes.
1916.
Lamentation
A lamentation,
Like some old prophet wailing.
Henry W. Longfellow
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Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of an angry man.
Plutarch
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