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People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.
 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. 
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.
Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.
Sinks my sad soul with sorrow to the grave.
 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.] 
 Sorrow preys upon
 Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it
  From its sad visions of the other read more 
 Sorrow preys upon
 Its solitude, and nothing more diverts it
  From its sad visions of the other world
   Than calling it at moments back to this.
    The busy have no time for tears. 
 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. 
Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
 Men die, but sorrow never dies;
 The crowding years divide in vain,
  And the wide world is read more 
 Men die, but sorrow never dies;
 The crowding years divide in vain,
  And the wide world is knit with ties
   Of common brotherhood in pain.