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[What boots it to keep saying]
What boots it to keep saying
That “life 's a hollow farce”?
That “men are fools”? that “praying
Helps not, nor doth remorse”?
That “life 's a hollow farce”?
That “men are fools”? that “praying
Helps not, nor doth remorse”?
What boots it to keep dwelling
On grief and sin and shame?
The old, old story telling,
“The end for all 's the same”?
On grief and sin and shame?
The old, old story telling,
“The end for all 's the same”?
Who says that He, the Power
That made us, as a rule
Made fools with farce for dower,
He only is the fool.
That made us, as a rule
Made fools with farce for dower,
He only is the fool.
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