“Love built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.”
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No. 2, The Anagram, line 27
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Source: The Complete English Poems
“Beauty has wings, and too hastily flies,
And love, unrewarded, soon sickens and dies.”
"Song XII" (c. 1750s), St. 3; (Poetical Works of Edward Moore, London: Cawthorn, 1797).
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