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Pleasures are like poppies spread, / You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; / Or, like the snowflake in the river, / A moment white, then melts for ever.
Pleasures are like poppies spread, / You seize the flower, its bloom is shed; / Or, like the snowflake in the river, / A moment white, then melts for ever.
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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- Dictionary of Quotations (1893) (1893 AD)
Printed citation: Burns. · page_349
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