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Quotes from The Pelican Island — James Montgomery

1771–1854 Scotland

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Nature's prime favourites were the Pelicans;
High-fed, long-lived, and sociable and free.

The Pelican Island (1827)

The nursery of brooding Pelicans,
The dormitory of their dead, had vanish'd,
And all the minor spots of rock and verdure,
The abodes of happy millions, were no more.

The Pelican Island (1827)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: James Montgomery (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.