"The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering……" — Martial

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• Every day that is born into the world comes like a burst of music and rings the whole day through,… — Thomas Carlyle
• With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage. — William Shakespeare
• Stern Winter loves a dirge-like sound. — William Wordsworth
• Living, just by itself - what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
• In the end, one or the other will triumph - a funeral dirge will be sung over the Soviet republic… — Vladimir Lenin
• Immigration along with nonwhite birthrates will make white people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will… — David Duke
• ... non-White Arab birthrates will make White Jewish people a minority totally vulnerable to the political, social, and economic will… — David Duke
• Living, just by itself --what a dirge that is! Life is a classroom and Boredom's the usher, there all the… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
• The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own… — Phineas Fletcher
• What are our conductors giving us year after year? Only fresh corpses. Over these beautifully embalmed sonatas, toccatas, symphonies and… — Henry Miller
• A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young. — Edgar Allan Poe
• I'm thinking of being a professional mourner. How hard can it be? Tear at your hair, sing a dirge or… — Christopher Moore

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