“Rust rust rust
in the engines of love and time”
Leonard Cohen book Flowers for Hitler
"Front Lawn", Flowers for Hitler (1964)
“Time will rust the sharpest sword,
Time will consume the strongest cord”
Harold the Dauntless (1817), Canto I, st. 4.
Context: Time will rust the sharpest sword,
Time will consume the strongest cord;
That which molders hemp and steel,
Mortal arm and nerve must feel.
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Time will consume the strongest cord" by Walter Scott?
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