He frisked beneath the moon,
He slept beneath the sun;
He led a life of going-to-do,
And died with nothing done.

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He walked beneath the moon, He slept beneath the sun, He lived a life of going to do, And died with nothing done. | Francis Wilson, Joseph Jefferson: Reminiscences of a Fellow Player (1907), p. 260 | He slept beneath the moon, He basked beneath the sun; He lived a life of going-to-do, And died with nothing done. | W. Gurney Benham, Putnam's Complete Book of Quotations (1907), p. 197

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