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Lyrics and Dramas

by Stephen Phillips

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11

BE THEN YOUR LIFE

Be then your life as a swan that calmly glideth
On a full river!
Mine as the bird storm-tost
In cloud for ever.
Yet the calm for a hell without colour shall smoothly prepare thee,
Sealing thy spirit;
But tempest and heaven shall I
Wildly inherit.