Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.

Night brings out stars as sorrow shows us truths.

Our days and nights
Have sorrows woven with delights.

Our days and nights
Have sorrows woven with delights.

Since sorrow never comes too late
And happiness too swiftly flies.

Since sorrow never comes too late
And happiness too swiftly flies.

Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.

Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.

I walked a mile with Pleasure,
She chattered all the way;
But left me none the wiser,
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I walked a mile with Pleasure,
She chattered all the way;
But left me none the wiser,
For all she had to say.
I walked a mile with Sorrow
And ne'er a word said she;
But, oh, the things I learned from her
When Sorrow walked with me!

How beautiful, if sorrow had not made
Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.

How beautiful, if sorrow had not made
Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.

Tears are words the heart can't express

Tears are words the heart can't express

For of Fortune's sharpe adversite,
The worste kynde of infortune is this,
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For of Fortune's sharpe adversite,
The worste kynde of infortune is this,
A man to hav bent in prosperite,
And it remembren whan it passed is.