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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Lamentation
 
                A lamentation,
Like some old prophet wailing.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  1
  Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of an angry man.
            —Plutarch		  2
 
 
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