This comes from Love Between Brothers and Sisters,one of the divine songs for children by Isaac Watts. The practical application of the proverb is that if they don’t agree some hapless nestling is going to be pushed out and killed. The same applies in a figurative sense to human families and communities; if they wish to be happy they must live together in harmony.
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