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 How beautiful, if sorrow had not made
 Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.  
 How beautiful, if sorrow had not made
 Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self. 
 Ah, don't be sorrowful darling,
 And don't be sorrowful, pray:
  Taking the year together, my dear,
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 Ah, don't be sorrowful darling,
 And don't be sorrowful, pray:
  Taking the year together, my dear,
   There isn't more night than day. 
 The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.
 [Lat., Oderunt hilarem tristes tristemque jocosi.]  
 The sorrowful dislike the gay, and the gay the sorrowful.
 [Lat., Oderunt hilarem tristes tristemque jocosi.] 
 The path of sorrow, and that path alone,
 Leads to the lands where sorrow is unknown.  
 The path of sorrow, and that path alone,
 Leads to the lands where sorrow is unknown. 
Tears are words the heart can't express
Tears are words the heart can't express
 My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me.
 [Fr., Mes malheurs sont combles, mais ma vertu read more 
 My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me.
 [Fr., Mes malheurs sont combles, mais ma vertu me reste.] 
Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.
Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.
 In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most 
unhappy kind of misfortune.
 [Lat., In read more 
 In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most 
unhappy kind of misfortune.
 [Lat., In omni adversitate fortunae, infelicissimum genus est 
infortunii fuisse felicem.] 
 For of Fortune's sharpe adversite,
 The worste kynde of infortune is this,
  A man to hav bent read more 
 For of Fortune's sharpe adversite,
 The worste kynde of infortune is this,
  A man to hav bent in prosperite,
   And it remembren whan it passed is.