Today I learned on Nostr: TIL that the nursery rhyme "Rock-a-Bye Baby" was published in the late 1700s with a ...

TIL that the nursery rhyme "Rock-a-Bye Baby" was published in the late 1700s with a warning "to the proud and ambitious, who climb so high that they generally fall at last." The original significance of the rhyme is unknown, with many unverified speculations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock-a-bye_Baby
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