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There was a jolly miller once,
Lived on the river Dee;
He worked and sung from morn till night:
No lark more blithe than he.

— Isaac Bickerstaffe Love in a Village (1762)

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Source: Love in a Village (1762), Act i, scene 2.
Work: Love in a Village, 1762
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