“The song that from the heart would spring
Is dead for want of echoing.”
Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915) Yiddish language author and playwright
In Alien Lands, translated by Leah W. Leonard.
“The songs of the dead are the lamentations of the living.”
— Christopher Paolini, book Eldest
Opening line
Source: Eldest (2005)
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