Swans sing before they die -- twere no bad thing did certain perso

Swans sing before they die — twere no bad thing did certain persons die before they sing. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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This is a fault common to all singers, that among their friends they will never sing when they are asked; unasked, they will never desist. – Horace

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There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few. – Edgar Allan Poe

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I sing like I feel. – Ella Fitzgerald

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Let who will make the laws of a nation so long as I am permitted to make her songs. – Andrew Fletcher

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