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Oh, what is Beauty’s power? It flourishes and dies; Will the cold earth its silence break. To tell how soft, how smooth a cheek Beneath its surface lies? Mute, mute is all, O’er Beauty’s fall; Her praise resounds no more, when mantled in her pall. The most beloved on earth Not long survives to-day; So music past is obsolete, And yet ’twas sweet, ’twas passing sweet, But now ’tis gone away. Thus does the shade In evening fade, When in forsaken tomb the form beloved is laid.
Oh, what is Beauty’s power? It flourishes and dies; Will the cold earth its silence break. To tell how soft, how smooth a cheek Beneath its surface lies? Mute, mute is all, O’er Beauty’s fall; Her praise resounds no more, when mantled in her pall. The most beloved on earth Not long survives to-day; So music past is obsolete, And yet ’twas sweet, ’twas passing sweet, But now ’tis gone away. Thus does the shade In evening fade, When in forsaken tomb the form beloved is laid.
In print by 1888 AD · industrial
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- H. K. White (identity unresolved)
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- In print by 1888 AD · industrial
In print by 1888: recorded in A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888). Collection publication is an upper bound for this wording, not its earliest origin, composition date or the author's lifetime.
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- A Cyclopædia of Sacred Poetical Quotations (catalogued1888) (1888 AD)
Page 53 · printed citation: H. K. White · subject: BEAUTIFUL
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