Poem: “Life’s Opera” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Poems of Sentiment

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Life’s Opera

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Like an opera-house is the world, I ween,
Where the passionate lover of music is seen
   In the balcony near the roof:
While the very best seat in the first stage-box
Is filled by the person who laughs and talks
   Through the harmony’s warp and woof.

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