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THE PRICE by WILLIAM CANTON

First Line: A MAN LIVED FIFTY YEARS - JOY DASHED WITH TEARS
Last Line: GOD PAID — AND THOUGHT IT CHEAP.
Subject(s): DEATH; SINGING & SINGERS; DAVID (BIBLE); DEAD, THE; SONGS;
A MAN lived fifty years — joy dashed with tears;
Loved, toiled; had wife and child, and lost them; died;
And left of all his long life's work one little song.
That lasted — nought beside.

Like the Monk Felix' bird, that song was heard;
Doubt prayed, Faith soared, Death smiled itself to sleep;
That song saved souls. You say — The man paid stiffly? Nay.
God paid — and thought it cheap.



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