Bagnold, Enid -- (Attributed)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

Why do birds sing in the morning? It’s the triumphant shout: “We got through another night!”

Enid Bagnold (1889-1981) English writer
(Attributed)

Unsourced in this form. In her 1969 autobiography she writes:

I hear that waking before dawn, that sentinel cry; and in thicket and thorn up comes the music. I hear it in the pillow; it intoxicates me. Why do they do it? I have never been taught about birds. Is it the triumph-shout -- "We have got through another night!" It may be.

Bagnold, Enid -- The Chalk Garden, Act 3 (1955)

Dave — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 18:31:02 +0000

MADRIGAL: One can lie. … But truth is more interesting!

Enid Bagnold (1889-1981) English writer
The Chalk Garden, Act 3 (1955)

Ellipses in original.

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Bagnold, Enid -- (Attributed)

Bagnold, Enid -- The Chalk Garden, Act 3 (1955)