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First Line: Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
Last Line: Is worth an age without a name.
Variant Title(s): Song;clarion;answer
Subject(s): Religion; Theology


SOUND, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.





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