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  2. The Second Coming (poem) - Wikipedia

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    In the weeks preceding Yeats′s writing of the poem, his pregnant wife, Georgie Hyde-Lees, caught the virus and was very close to death, but she survived. The highest death rates of the pandemic were among pregnant women, who in some areas had a death rate of up to 70%.

  3. List of proverbial phrases - Wikipedia

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    March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb; Marriages are made in heaven [17] [18] [19] Marry in haste, repent at leisure; Memory is the treasure of the mind; Men are blind in their own cause – Heywood Broun (1888–1939), American journalist; Men get spoiled by staying, women get spoiled by wandering; Might is right; Might makes right

  4. The Blinded Bird - Wikipedia

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    The Blinded Bird" is a 1916 poem written by English author and poet Thomas Hardy. The poem was reportedly written as a protest against Vinkensport, a sort of singing competition between male finches. [1] The poem decries the prior historical practice of blinding birds to improve their performance at the sport.

  5. The Mock Turtle's Song - Wikipedia

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    The poem is very similar to "The Spider and the Fly" in its rhyme scheme, meter, and tone. The first lines of the two songs are as follows: Will you walk a little faster said a whiting to a snail... (The Lobster Quadrille) Will you walk into my parlour said a spider to a fly... (The Spider and the Fly)

  6. List of songs recorded by "Weird Al" Yankovic - Wikipedia

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    Original, in the style of R.E.M.'s "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville", "Near Wild Heaven" and other songs. "Fun Zone" UHF - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack and Other Stuff (1989) Original – "Fun Zone" does not really have lyrics. People occasionally say "yeah" and other similar phrases, but it's generally just instrumental.

  7. Paradise Lost in popular culture - Wikipedia

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    The 2003 film Kamen Rider 555: Paradise Lost references the poem by having Faiz being a savior, who will come back to life and bring peace to the world. T-Bird, a character from the 1994 thriller film The Crow reads the line from an actual antique copy of the book, "Abashed the devil stood, and felt how awful goodness is."

  8. List of The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! episodes

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    The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! is an animated musical educational children's television series feature starring Martin Short as The Cat in the Hat. The series premiered on Treehouse TV in Canada on August 7, 2010, also airing on YTV and Nickelodeon Canada on weekday mornings from 2012 to 2013, [1] and on PBS Kids and PBS Kids Preschool Block in the US on September 6, 2010.

  9. One for Sorrow (nursery rhyme) - Wikipedia

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    Magpie, magpie, I go by thee!" and to spit on the ground three times. [8] On occasion, jackdaws, crows and other Corvidae are associated with the rhyme, particularly in America where magpies are less common. [9] In eastern India, the erstwhile British colonial bastion, the common myna is the bird of association. [10]