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Ella Wheeler Wilcox on Life

1850–1919 United States

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Our lives are songs; God writes the words
And we set them to music at pleasure;
And the song grows glad, or sweet or sad,
As we choose to fashion the measure.

The days grow shorter, the nights grow longer,
The headstones thicken along the way;
And life grows sadder, but love grows stronger
For those who walk with us day by day.

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Ella Wheeler Wilcox (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.