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The spring, like youth, fresh blossoms doth produce, But autumn makes them ripe and fit for use: So Age a mature mellowness doth set On the green promises of youthful heat.
The spring, like youth, fresh blossoms doth produce, But autumn makes them ripe and fit for use: So Age a mature mellowness doth set On the green promises of youthful heat.
Approximate author period: c. 1641 AD · renaissance
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- Sir John Denham
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- Approximate author period: c. 1641 AD · renaissance
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- Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations (1922) (1922 AD)
Printed page 13 · quotation 16 · Sir John Denham · Cato Major. Pt. IV. L. 47.
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