“A flower may fade before 'tis noon,
And I this day may lose my breath.”
Isaac Watts (1674–1748) English hymnwriter, theologian and logician
Song 13: "The Danger of Delay".
1710s, Divine Songs Attempted in the Easy Language of Children (1715)
“Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;
Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade;
A breath can make them, as a breath has made;
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroyed, can never be supplied.”
Source: The Deserted Village (1770), Line 51.
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