“A happy soul, that all the way
To heaven hath a summer’s day.”
Richard Crashaw (1612–1649) British writer
In Praise of Lessius’s Rule of Health, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Summer's lease hath all too short a date.”
Source: Sonnets (1609), XVIII
Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets
Context: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date
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