“The flowers anew returning seasons bring!
But beauty faded has no second spring.”
Ambrose Philips (1674–1749) Anglo-Irish poet and politician
Lobbing, The First Pastoral (1709), line 55.
“Alas! The beauty
of the flowers has faded
and come to nothing,
while I have watched the rain,
lost in melancholy thought.”
Source: Helen Craig McCullough's translations, Kokin Wakashū: The First Imperial Anthology of Japanese Poetry (1985), p. 35
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