[Editor: This poem by William Blocksidge (also known as William Baylebridge) was published in Songs o’ the South (1908).]
The Discord of Man’s Life
Why strange to know man’s music’s little worth
Whose sounding-board is but a load of earth?
None surely doubt, who know his constitution,
Life is the discord, death the resolution.
Source:
William Blocksidge, Songs o’ the South, London: Watts, 1908, p. 77
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