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Show "Swan Song" The term, "swan song," Is familial to all for a farewell performance, or the last creative effort of an artist art-ist The allusion Is to the song popularly pop-ularly believed to be sung by a swSn when dying. The origin of the metaphor met-aphor is founit-ln the "Epigrams" of the famous Latin "Martial," probably prob-ably Marcus Valerius Martlalls, who Is believed to have lived from the year 40 to 102 A. D. And a well-known well-known use of It Is In Shakespeare's "Merchant of Venice." |