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“Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave.”
Provenance
- Source:
- A Psalm of Life.
- Type:
- song
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- ea0e923672de44ce188e066926a4f4867540c4e2cbeb1f77ce3543616f09ee0c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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