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Whether Men Do Laugh or Weep Lyrics by Philip Rosseter

A Book of Ayres

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Whether men do laugh or weep
Whether they do wake or sleep
Whether they die young or old
Whether they feel heat or cold
There is underneath the sun
Nothing in true earnest done
All our pride is but a jest
None are worst and none are best
Grief and joy and hope and fear
Play their pageants ev'rywhere
Vain opinion all doth sway
And the world is but a play
Powers above in clouds do sit
Marking our poor apish wit
That so lamely, without state
Their high glory imitate
No ill can be felt but pain
And that happy men disdain

About “Whether Men Do Laugh or Weep” by Philip Rosseter

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"Whether Men Do Laugh or Weep" appears on "A Book of Ayres".

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