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But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; Or, like the snow-fall in the river, A moment white, then melts forever.
Approximate author period: c. 1777 AD · early modern
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- Robert Burns
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- Approximate author period: c. 1777 AD · early modern
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- Familiar Quotations, ninth edition (1905 printing) (1905 AD)
Tam o' Shanter.
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