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Henry Austin Dobson , commonly Austin Dobson, was an English poet and essayist.

✵ 18. January 1840 – 2. September 1921
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Henry Austin Dobson Quotes

“The ladies of St. James’s!
They’re painted to the eyes;
Their white it stays forever
Their red it never dies:
But Phillida, my Phillida!
Her color comes and goes;
It trembles to a lily,—
It wavers to a rose.”

Henry Austin Dobson

At the Sign of the Lyre (1885).

Color , Painting

“Time goes, you say? Ah, no!
Alas, Time stays, we go.”

Henry Austin Dobson

The Paradox of Time http://books.google.com/books?id=KW4NAAAAYAAJ&q="time+goes+you+say+ah+no+alas+time+stays+we+go"&pg=PA175#v=onepage (1886).

Time

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