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Laughter from a Cloud

By Walter Raleigh with a foreword by Hilary Raleigh
  

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110

[Life rang the bell to call the people in]

Life rang the bell to call the people in;
The play was played by Folly, Pride, and Sin;
Old Age, with fingers trembling and uncertain,
Turned off the gas, and Death let down the curtain.

Question: Who rang the bell?

Word: Life.