Nature
The robin and the wren
From The Nursery Rhymes of England, collected by J. O. Halliwell (London: Warne; first ed. 1842; this printing 1886)
Nature
The robin and the wren,
They fought upon the parrage pan;
But ere the robin got a spoon,
The wren had eat the parrage down.
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Codex Note
Halliwell's class: Natural History.
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