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“THE WAY THE WORLD GOES ROUND”
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“THE WAY THE WORLD GOES ROUND”
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Spring and summer, joy and sorrow,Rose and lily and autumn leaf;
Laughter now, but tears to-morrow,
Rapture followed fast by grief;
Grass, then snows upon the ground:
That's the way the world goes round!
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Peace for years and hedgerows hoaryWith the fragrant bloom of may;
War for months, and meadows gory;
Stars that weep and turn away
From the reeking battle-ground:
That's the way the world goes round!
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Brave old world! It pauses never.Soon the voices of to-day,
Lessening in the vast for ever,
Shall be hushed and pass away:
But the world shall sweep along,
Chanting its old endless song.
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