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What Will Your Verse Be? Lyrics by Tom Schulman

1989

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I've a little secret for you. Huddle up. Huddle up! We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law, business, engineering -- these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love -- these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman:
O me! O life! of the questions of these recurring,
Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill'd with the foolishWhat good amid these, O me, O life?
Answer.
That you are here—that life exists and identity,
That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse."That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse." What will your verse be?
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Tom Schulman

Tom Schulman

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