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 Everything ends with songs.
 [Fr., Tout finit par des chansons.]  
 Everything ends with songs.
 [Fr., Tout finit par des chansons.] 
The lively Shadow-World of Song.
The lively Shadow-World of Song.
You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.
You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song.
Sing a song of sixpence.
Sing a song of sixpence.
The song is ended / But the melody lingers on.
The song is ended / But the melody lingers on.
 Such songs have power to quiet
 The restless pulse of care,
  And come like the benediction
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 Such songs have power to quiet
 The restless pulse of care,
  And come like the benediction
   That follows after prayer. 
 Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound;
 She feels no biting pang the while she sings,
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 Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound;
 She feels no biting pang the while she sings,
  Nor as she turns the giddy wheel around,
   Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things. 
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.
There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.