“Perhaps it may turn out a sang,
Perhaps turn out a sermon.”
Robert Burns (1759–1796) Scottish poet and lyricist
Stanza 1
Epistle to a Young Friend (1786)
“A verse may finde him, who a sermon flies
And turns delight into a sacrifice”
The Temple (1633), The Church Porch
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