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The flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow dies; All that we wish to stay, Tempts, and then flies: What is this world’s delight? Lightning, that mocks the night, Brief even as bright.
The flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow dies; All that we wish to stay, Tempts, and then flies: What is this world’s delight? Lightning, that mocks the night, Brief even as bright.
Approximate author period: c. 1807 AD · industrial
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- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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- Approximate author period: c. 1807 AD · industrial
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 689 · printed citation: Shelley · subject: WORLD
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