Marion Sinclair (1896–1988) Australian music teacher and songwriter
Kookaburra Sits In The Old Gum Tree.
“A very merry, dancing, drinking,
Laughing, quaffing, and unthinkable time.”
Source: Fables, Ancient and Modern (1700), The Secular Masque (1700), Lines 38–39.
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English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century 1631–1700Related quotes
“Now is the time for drinking, now the time to dance footloose upon the earth.”
Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero
pulsanda tellus.
Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero
pulsanda tellus.
Book I, ode xxxvii, line 1
Odes (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)
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Source: "The Flaw in Paganism" in Death and Taxes (1931)
“Eat drink and be merry for tomorrow we may diet.”
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Amir Taheri (1942) Iranian journalist
When the Ayatollah Dictates Poetry http://www.aawsat.net/2015/07/article55344336/when-the-ayatollah-dictates-poetry, Ashraq Al-Awsat (Jul 11, 2015).
“Let me go warm and merry still;
And let the world laugh, an' it will.”
Luis de Góngora (1561–1627) Spanish Baroque lyric poet
Andeme yo caliente
y ríase la gente.
Letrillas, "Andeme yo caliente", line 1, cited from Robert Jammes (ed.) Letrillas (Madrid: Castalia, 1980) p. 115. Translation from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Poets and Poetry of Europe (New York: C. S. Francis, 1855) p. 695
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"Magnus and Morna", in Thirty Years, Poems New and Old (1880)
