“Scarcely a tear to shed;
Hardly a word to say;
The end of a Summer's day;
Sweet Love is dead.”
An Evening; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Irish man of letters and poet 1824–1889Related quotes
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I say it just
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Maxim 376
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