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Quotes from A Bird in a Gilded Cage — Arthur J. Lamb

1870–1928 England

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She's only a bird in a gilded cage,
A beautiful sight to see,
You may think she's happy and free from care,
She's not, though she seems to be,
'Tis sad when you think of her wasted life,
For youth cannot mate with age,
And her beauty was sold
For an old man's gold,
She's a bird in a gilded cage.

A Bird in a Gilded Cage (1900)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Arthur J. Lamb (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.