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"Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague."

John Armstrong, American Poet

Music, Grief, Joy, Pain

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"Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain, subdues the rage of poison, and the plague."

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