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Since I Am Sworn to Live My Life

by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Since I am sworn to live my life, And not to keep an easy heart, Some men may sit and drink apart⁠— I bear a banner in the strife.

Some can take quiet thought to wife⁠— I am all day at tierce and carte; Since I am sworn to live my life And not to keep an easy heart.

I follow gaily to the fife, Leave wisdom bowed above a chart And prudence brawling in the mart, And dare misfortune to the knife, Since I am sworn to live my life.

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