sung quotes

Aujourd'hui, ce qui ne vaut pas la peine d'e"  tre dit, on le chante. Today, what is not worth being said is sung.

- Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
  Le Barbier de Se  ville, act1, sc.2.

The silver swan, who living had no note, When death approached, unlocked her silent throat; Leaning her breast against the reedy shore, Thus sung her first and last, and sung no more: 'Farewell, all joys; Oh death, come close mine eyes; More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise.'

- Orlando Gibbons
  TheFirst Set of Madrigals and Motets of Five Parts,'The Silver Swan'.

The way was long, the wind was cold, The Minstrel was infirm and old; His withered cheek, and tresses grey, Seemed to have known a better day; The harp, his sole remaining joy, Was carried byan orphan boy, The last of all the Bards was he, Who sung of Border chivalry.

- Sir Walter Scott
  The Lay of the Last Minstrel, introduction.