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Our lives are songs; God writes the words, And we set them to music at leisure: And the song is sad, or the song is glad As we choose to fashion the measure. We must write the song, Whatever the words, Whatever its rhyme, or meter; And if it is sad, we must make it glad, And if sweet, we must make it sweeter.
Our lives are songs; God writes the words, And we set them to music at leisure: And the song is sad, or the song is glad As we choose to fashion the measure. We must write the song, Whatever the words, Whatever its rhyme, or meter; And if it is sad, we must make it glad, And if sweet, we must make it sweeter.
Approximate author period: c. 1765 AD · early modern
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- Edward Gibbon
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- Approximate author period: c. 1765 AD · early modern
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- Thoughts: Selected from the writings of favorite authors (1901) (1901 AD)
Complete signed selection 55; printed byline: Gibbon; New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1901
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