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QUOTATION:Give me the roses while I live,
Something to cheer me on;
Useless the flowers you may give,
After the soul is gone.
ATTRIBUTION:James Rowe (19th–20th century), hymn-writer. Published in The Sacred Harp (1991). “Wonderful things of men are said,” l. 5-8 (1915).
 
 
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