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This is not your nest, fly away.
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The speaker tells someone that this is not their place and urges them to leave. The nest image compares a place to a home or shelter, while “fly away” makes the instruction sound direct and final.
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- Project Gutenberg, The Diwan of Abu'l-Ala (1909 translation by Henry Baerlein)
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