Verses in example sentence

"I will explain myself another time," said Don Lorenzo; "for the present pray attend to the glossed verses and the gloss, which run thus:Could 'was' become an 'is' for me,Then would I ask no more than this;Or could, for me, the time that isBecome the time that is to be!—GLOSSDame Fortune once upon a dayTo me was bountiful and kind;But all things change; she changed her mind,And what she gave she took away.

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"Some of these verses are definite in meaning," it says, "and others are ambiguous."

I'd like to end with a few verses of what I wrote at my father's cremation.

I've described it as a kind of projectile vomiting, a torrent of ideas, of characters, of voices, of verses, couplets, entire songs almost formed whole, materialized in front of me as if they'd been bottled up inside me for many, many years.

He recites verses from the Koran, begging his God to live.

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