GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1711
“On a tree by a river a little tom-tit Sang ‘Willow, titwillow, titwillow!’ And I said to him, ‘Dicky-bird, why do you sit Singing ‘Willow, titwillow, titwillow?’” (the beginning of the poem “Ko-Ko’s Song” by Sir W.S. Gilbert, 1836-1911)
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