AG2024_1112250a or a lamentation

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the one whispering an old, old tune into the ear
of the other –?Baby, baby, don’t leave me this way.

[…]

It meant nothing to me?–?
then, at least?–?but did you know the collective noun
for swans is a lamentation? And is a lamentation not
its own species of song?

John Murillo, Upon Reading That Eric Dolphy Transcribed Even the Calls of Certain Species of Birds,

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