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First Line: I SHALL BE LONELY IN MY GRAVE
Last Line: AND LEAVE DESTINY TO CHANCE.
Subject(s): CARPE DIEM;
I shall be lonely in my grave
Where willows cast their slender shade
Above me.
But now I crave
Response for which my heart was made.

For I shall cease to sing some day
But now I want to leap and dance
And in some wild-wood lose my way
And leave destiny to chance.



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