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The gatherd storme is rype; the bigge drops falle;The forswat meadowes smethe, and drenche the raine;The comyng ghastness do the cattle pall,And the full flockes are drivynge ore the plaine;Dashde from the cloudes the waters flott againe;The welkin opes; the yellow levynne flies;And the hot fierie smothe in the wide lowings dies.

Thomas Chatterton

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Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies,And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.

edward moore

— "Song XII" (c. 1750s), St. 3; (Poetical Works of Edward Moore, London: Cawthorn, 1797).

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Ask me no more, if cast or west,The phenix builds her spicy nest;For unto you at last she flies,And in your fragrant bosom dies.

thomas carew

— "Song".

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Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies,And catch the manners, living as they rise;Laugh where we must, be candid where we can,But vindicate the ways of God to man.

Alexander Pope

— Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man (1733-34), Epistle I, line 13.

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