Songs consecrate to truth and liberty.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts.

Our sweetest songs are those of saddest thought.

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.