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Everyone knows that swan song is a figurative term meaning "a farewell appearance or a final act or pronouncement (especially the last work of an author or composer)." But we'd bet not many folks know that the swan song fable --and it is a fable -- has been around for such a long, long time.

Plato gave swans the gift of prophecy, observing that "when they perceive that they must die, having sung all their life long, do then sing more lustily than ever."

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