“Let's grow old and die together. Let's do it now.”
Ani DiFranco (1970) musician and activist
The Waiting Song
Song lyrics
“Let's meet and either do or die.”
The Island Princess (c. 1620; published 1647), Act II, scene 2. Compare: "Let us do or die", Robert Burns, Bannockburn; same in Thomas Campbell, Gertrude of Wyoming, part iii. stanza 37.
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